Four minor boys drowned in Mumbai’s Juhu, bodies of two recovered

Mumbai (IANS) | Mumbai Police has recovered the bodies of two of the four minor boys who were washed away in the sea near Juhu and has resumed the search for two others, BMC Disaster Control said on Tuesday. All these boys were washed away in the Arabian Sea on Monday evening in Juhu Koliwada area.

Police recovered the bodies of Dharmesh Valji Fauzia and Shubham Yogesh Bhogania, both 16, and sent them to R.N. Cooper was sent to the hospital.

Two others, Manish Yogesh Bhogania (12) and Jai Roshan Tajbaria (15) are still missing at sea. Ahead of the cyclonic storm ‘Biporjoy’, the sea is rough and high waves are rising.

The boy, one of the total five drowning victims on Monday evening, was rescued by local people and fishermen. Mumbai Police, BMC Fire Brigade along with speedboats along with an Indian Navy helicopter searched the sea till around midnight.

The five were among eight school friends who had gone for a half-day picnic in Juhu on Monday afternoon, a day before the school reopened on Tuesday.

Five of the eight reportedly ignored the warnings and went to a small fishing jetty from where they were washed away by the sea waves within half a kilometre.

None of the eight students knew swimming. He lived in a slum area of Vakola. This is the first major tragedy of this monsoon season in Mumbai.

–IANS