BHOPAL: A 16-year-old boy, who had gone to
Kerwa Dam
area along with his five friends for picnic, drowned in a pit near the stop dam in the downstream of the reservoir on Sunday evening.
Two of his friends were saved by the other visitors present in the area.
Police, with the help of divers, fished out the body of the boy.
A large number of people had turned up at Kerwa Dam to enjoy their holiday near the water body but there was only one policeman deployed and that too at Kerwa Dam entry point, said a friend of the deceased.
Police said that Musaif Qureshi, son of
Akhtar Qureshi
, a resident of JP Nagar, used to worked at a lace shop. His father Akhtar works as a porter.
Police said that Musaif along with his friends Haaris Ali, 19, Anas, Talib,
Shakir
and
Uzair
had visited Kerwa Dam on two bikes on Sunday evening around 4pm.
Haaris, who works as a carpenter, told TOI that after taking a stroll on the Kerwa Dam, he and his friends went to the downstream of the dam where the stop dam was located around 4.30pm.
He along with Talib went ahead to find shallow water while Musaif and other friends stayed near the stop dam. When he returned around 15 minutes later, he found that three friends including Musaif, Shakir and
Uzer
had gone into the water and were drowning.
The visitors somehow managed to save Uzer and Shakir while Musaif slipped and drowned in deep water.
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