Mumbai: 14-year-old boy drowns in school swimming pool in presence of trainer
Mumbai, Jun 23: A 14-year-old boy drowned in a school swimming pool in Goregaon in Mumbai on Friday, a police official said.
The incident took place at 12:30pm at Yashodham School and the deceased has been identified as Shardul Arolkar, he said.
"A trainer was present when Shardul drowned. He is a student of Class IX in the same school. There were four trainers and the main one was coaching him at the time. He had been learning swimming for the last six months," he said.
"He was pulled out of water and rushed first to a private hospital and then to a government facility where doctors declared him dead on arrival," the official said.
An accidental death case has been registered in Dindoshi police station in Goregaon East and further probe was underway, the official informed.
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4 killed as SUV rams into truck in Jharkhand's Hazaribag
Hazaribag (PTI): Four people were killed after their SUV rammed into a truck in Jharkhand's Hazaribag district on Saturday, police said.
The accident happened around 6 pm on NH-2 in Danua Valley in the Chouparan police station area, they said.
"The accident happened due to speeding and the SUV driver's attempt to overtake the truck, during which he lost control of the vehicle," said Saroj Kumar Singh, the officer-in-charge of the Chouparan police station.
The deceased are yet to be identified, he said, adding that the car has a Dhanbad registration.
Singh said the impact of the collision was such that the SUV was badly damaged.
"The bodies of the victims were retrieved from the vehicle and sent for post-mortem examination," he said.
