Maharashtra: 4-year-old girl crushed to death under cement bench at park in Navi Mumbai

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A 4-year-old girl was crushed to death under a cement bench in a park in Kharghar, Navi Mumbai area of Maharashtra, a police official said told the PTI on Sunday.

The incident took place on Saturday afternoon when Brija Vishwakarma had gone to the park with her father, he said.

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"Just as she was about to sit on a bench, she slipped and fell and the bench, which was broken, loose and in a rundown condition, toppled and crushed her. Her father took her to a hospital where doctors declared her dead on arrival," he said, according to the PTI.

An accidental death case has been registered by the Navi Mumbai police and probe into all angles, including negligence, is underway, the official added.

Meanwhile, in an another incident, a 13-year-old boy allegedly drowned at Pandavkada waterfall in Kharghar area of Navi Mumbai in Maharashtra on Sunday during an outing, police said, according to the PTI.

The incident occurred amid a ban on visiting this waterfall during the monsoon, they said, as per the PTI.

"The boy, identified as Harsh Gautam, was at the waterfall with some men when he slipped into the water and drowned. After the incident, local fire brigade personnel were alerted and his body was fished out," an official of Kharghar police station in Navi Mumbai said, reported the PTI.

The body was sent to a government hospital for postmortem and a case of accidental death was registered, he said, adding that the police are investigating the incident.

Last week, two men drowned in a waterfall in Shahpur tehsil of Maharashtra's Thane district, the police had earlier said.

The incident took place at Mahuli Gad, Khor village, Inspector Samsher Tadvi of Vashind police station had said.

The duo, along with a woman friend, were visiting the spot when one of them fell into the deep pool at the bottom of the waterfall and the other tried to save him. But both of them drowned, PTI had reported.

After the woman alerted police, local fire brigade personnel rushed to the spot and pulled out the bodies.

(with PTI inputs)