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6-Year-Old Indian Girl Clings To Life For 11 Hours After Dad Throws Her In River

Darpan News Desk IANS, 01 Jul, 2016 02:10 PM
    The temptation of new shoes promised by her father was too much to resist for an unsuspecting six-year-old, who accompanied him, only to be thrown into the Ulhas river by him and his friend.
     
    Fortunately, she managed to hang onto water hyacinth plants and stayed afloat for over 11 hours, until she was rescued. 
     
    The incident took place on Wednesday night near the Walivli bridge at Badlapur and she was rescued on Thursday.
     
    An alert security guard, Ramesh Bhoir, (35), a resident of Badlapur who works for Mohan Group, a construction company, spotted her. 
     
    He said, "Our site is just adjoining the river. Around 6 am yesterday, I was on a round, when I heard the screams of a girl, but couldn't see anything in the river. So I went to the Walivli bridge and saw that just below it, a girl had managed to stay afloat by hanging onto water hyacinth plants. I immediately called the police station and fire brigade."
     
    Bhoir claims the fire brigade reached the spot within 15 minutes but the police came at 7:45 am, after the rescue.
     
    The girl, identified as Ekta Tulsiram Siani, a resident of Vartak Nagar in Thane, was rescued by 6:45 am. "When we questioned her as to how she fell in the river, she claimed that her father, along with his friend, threw her in," added Bhoir. Police said the girl said she was thrown at 8 pm. In her statement to police she said that she was taken by her father who lured her with a new pair of shoes and threw her in the river.
     
    Bhagwat Sonone, chief officer, Kulgaon-Badlapur Fire Brigade, said, "We received a call at 6:10 am. The river is around 25 feet deep in the area, and the bridge is almost 40 feet above it. Tying a rope to an air tube, we let it down and rescued the girl within 20 minutes. We asked the girl to sit in the tube."

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