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'I turned around and saw that they had disappeared'

Mother who lost two children in the Bandra pipeline burst says she had instructed her 10-year-old daughter to carry out the crying baby, but they both drowned in the gushing waters

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A water pipeline burst in Bandra East yesterday that flooded the Indira Nagar slums within minutes
A water pipeline burst in Bandra East yesterday that flooded the Indira Nagar slums within minutes

This family of six was going about their regular day a shanty in Indira Nagar, Behrampada, but little did they know that it was all about to go down the drain. An adjacent pipeline burst and when Poonam Dhoiphode finally made it to a safe spot, turned around to see two of her four children missing. She had only just handed the eight-month-old Swapnil to Priyanka, 10, while she collected all their important documents in their shanty and made a dash for it. Their bodies were found later in the flooded lane.

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