More than 300 rescue workers failed to find four-year-old Duggu Bansal alias Bhag who was swept away in the heavy water current in a nullah on Tuesday afternoon at Panchsheel Naga during heavy downpour in the city.
The stretch of nullah from Panchsheel Nagar to Shahpura lake was thoroughly checked by the rescue workers in the past 24 hours. The searching operation of the boy which continued on Wednesday for the whole day but the boy was not found.
Mayor Alok Sharma claimed that around 300 rescue workers were employed for the past 24 in the work. Massive blockages of garbage in the nullah were removed suspecting that the boy might have stuck in the garbage.
The district administration deployed over 350 including Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC), police, NDRF and SDERF teams.
Notably on Tuesday the boy was playing with her elder brother Armaan near his house and while playing he slipped and swept in the heavy current water in Panchsheel Nagar.
The incident took place at around 11 am on Tuesday but even on Wednesday these teams have failed to trace the boy in the whole nullah which crosses Ekta Park and end in Shahpura lake.
District collector Sudam P Khade, Bhopal DIG Dharmendra Choudhary, Mayor Alok Sharma and BMC commissioner Avinash lavania visited the spot during the rescue operation.
A total stretch of around 2 km of nullah starting from the point where the boy swept at Panchsheel Nagar to Ekta Park and leading to Shahpura lake was searched by the rescue workers from Tuesday to Wednesday but the boy remained still missing. Teams of NDRF and SDERF continued search operations using boats in Shahpura lake on Wednesday.