Civic apathy claimed another life, as a seven-year-old boy drowned in a water-filled pit between two pipeline on Sunday afternoon in Thane. According to the report in The Times of India, the deceased identified as Aniket Gaikwad, who lived in a shanty in Kisan Nagar slipped and fell into the pit while playing.

The Thane Regional Disaster Management chief Santosh Kadam was quoted saying that he was playing with friends when he reportedly wandering closer to the ditch. His friends alerted his parents who in turn inform local authorities. When the boy was pulled out with the help of the locals, he was unconscious but by the time he was rushed to a local hospital, when he was declared dead.