The body of Laksmi, who was missing since Sunday afternoon, was found under the Amberpet police jurisdiction.
Published Sep 06, 2023 | 5:02 PM ⚊ Updated Sep 06, 2023 | 5:19 PM
55-year-old Laksmi's body found in Musi river. (Supplied)
Three days after the incident, the body of a 55-year-old woman who was susceptibly washed away in Hyderabad’s Hussain Sagar stream in Gandhinagar was found near the Moosarambagh bridge on Wednesday, 6 September.
The Gandhinagar police, where the family initially lodged a missing complaint on 3 September, told South First that the residents first came across the body on the banks of the Musi River between 7:30 and 8 AM on Wednesday.
The body of Laksmi, who was missing since the afternoon of Sunday, 3 September, was found under the Amberpet police jurisdiction. It later alerted their Gandhinagar counterparts. Her body was found in a decomposed state.
The deceased woman was identified as G Laksmi, a homemaker. A resident of DS Nagar in the Kavadiguda area of Secunderabad, Lakshmi shifted to her daughter’s house L Sunitha five months back.
N Ravi, SHO of Gandhinagar police station told South First, “Laksmi’s house is located right at the edge of Nala and she accidentally fell into that.”
As per reports, a search operation by the Gandhinagar police, the GHMC, and Disaster Response Force (DRF) teams was carried out on Sunday night but yielded no results in locating Laksmi.
Her nephew Santosh Mukhapalli told South First, “She must have gone to use the washroom, and slipped into the nala. Later we found her bangles and a mug near the nala.”
He added that it says it’s an unfortunate accident. “So far there are no other doubts about foul play.”
Four-year-old Mithun Reddy. (Supplied)
This unfortunate incident comes a day after a four-year-old boy was found dead after he drowned in an open drain.
The four-year-old, Mithun Reddy, a resident of the NRI Colony in Pragathi Nagar, slipped into an overflowing open drain outside his residence on Tuesday, 5 September.
The body of the boy, identified as Mithun Reddy, was recovered from the city’s Turka Cheruvu after over six hours of work by the Disaster Response Forces (DRF), the police told South First.
Mithun Reddy went missing at around 11: 30 AM on Tuesday, 5 September, as he was nowhere to be found, his parents checked footage from the CCTV located at the main gate, where they found that the boy had fallen into the drain outside their apartment.
The Bachupally police rushed to the spot and started efforts to trace the body along with the DRF teams from the Nizampet Municipal Corporation, who were assisted by two teams of the GHMC’s Enforcement Vigilance & Disaster Management (EV&DM) Directorate.
