Maharashtra: Missing food delivery agent found dead in nullah in Pune

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A 31-year-old food delivery executive, reported missing since earlier this week, was found dead in a nullah in Maharashtra's Pune city on Friday, police said.

Sanjay Kumar Yadav, an employee of an online food aggregator app, had accepted the last food delivery order around 10.45 pm on October 17 and had since been missing, an official said.

Pune received heavy rainfall on October 17 and several parts of the city were inundated.

"Today, we found Yadav's body in a nullah near a housing society in Mohammadwadi. It is suspected that he might have fallen into a flooded nullah near Sanskriti School in the same vicinity and got washed away in the strong water current," senior inspector Sardar Patil of Kondhwa police station said.

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The victim's family filed a missing person's complaint after two days, he said.

"It is suspected that in order to deliver food at the time, Yadav might have ventured into the flooded area on his motorcycle on the road adjacent to the nullah and got washed away," the official said.

Pune city received 104 mm of rainfall in five hours late on Monday night and early hours of Tuesday, which led to water logging and inundation.

Social media was abuzz with pictures of cars and vehicles getting washed away in the rain.

Municipal Commissioner Vikram Kumar had said that this year's rainfall in the month of October has been unprecedented.

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