After searching for her son through the night, it was Rasati Raja's worst nightmare come true when she saw a body in the nullah. "My heart skipped a beat. I went closer and saw it was my son, floating lifelessly in the water. I jumped in and started pulling him out," sobbed Rasati, mother of Harijan Nagendran, 18, who drowned in a ditch in Malad after Sunday's heavy showers.

Rasati had spent 10 hours searching for her son, after he went missing on Sunday evening. The 18-year-old resident of Muthu Mariamman Nagar loved football, and had stepped out around 4.30 pm for a game. When he hadn't returned by 9 pm, his mother grew worried. At 7 am the next morning, she saw his body in the ditch.