Thane: Two dead after bridge collapses in Uran

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Two persons died after a bridge on a creek, which connects Dadarpada and Dhudus villages, collapsed at 5:30pm. The deceased were identified as Rajesh Laxman Waghmare (30) and Avinash Suresh Murkute (22), both labourers, while two others were injured, a police official said.

"They worked at a nearby brick kiln and had ventured out for fishing. They got trapped after the 35-year-old bridge fell. The two labourers who were injured have been hospitalised," the Uran police station official said.

In a separate incident, body of a man was retrieved from a lake in Digha in Navi Mumbai on Monday by jawans of the Thane TDRF, an official said.

Hari Om Mourya (24) had drowned while out on a swim on Sunday in the Khandi lake, TMC disaster management cell chief Yasin Tadvi said.

A team comprising personnel from the NMMC fire services, Rabale police and TDRF carried out the operation to retrieve the body, he added.

"The TDRF used an underwater telescopic camera and fished out the body," he said.

Meanwhile, an 8-year-old boy was sexually abused and murdered allegedly by a man who lured him with a 'vada pav' in Pimpri Chinchwad area of Pune, a police official said on Monday.

The boy had gone missing on Saturday from near his home in a chawl and CCTV footage showed he was abducted by a man who was later identified as 28-year-old Pawan Pandey, the Wakad police station official said.

"Pandey was arrested on Sunday. He has confessed he sexually assaulted the boy before strangling him and dumping the body in Bavdhan area," the official said.

Pandey was charged with murder, unnatural sex and other offences under provisions of the Indian Penal Code and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, the official added. (With inputs from PTI)