The body of a four-year-old boy, who was washed away in a flooded nullah at Kalwa in Thane city of Maharashtra, was recovered on Friday, an official said.
The boy, Aditya Mourya, had got washed away in the swollen water body around 7.30 pm on Thursday from the Bhaskar Nagar area of Kalwa, he said.
The body of the minor was found in the nullah near Mafatlal company around 9 am by a team of local fire brigade personnel and the Regional Disaster Management Cell (RDMC) of the Thane civic body, said Avinash Sawant, chief of the cell.
The body was handed over to the Kalwa police personnel, who sent it to a local civic hospital for post-mortem.
Police said they are in the process of registering a case of accidental death.
Meanwhile, the fire brigade and the RDMC have been getting calls seeking assistance following heavy rain. The city received 89.41 mm of rainfall, of which 71.12 mm was received in an hour between 5.30 pm and 6.30 pm on Friday.
During the ongoing monsoon season, the city has so far received 2,291.38 mm rainfall as against 2,981.68 mm in the previous year.
The official also said that incidents of trees being uprooted and house and wall collapses have been reported in the city, and there were complaints of water logging in low-lying areas.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
73-Year-Old Man Arrested For Raping Girl, 16, In Maharashtra's Thane: Cops Thane Techie Duped Of Rs 91 Lakh In Share Trading Fraud Railway Protection Force Arrest 2 In Nashik For Trespassing To Make Reels Tear Gas Fired After Kolkata Protest Against Doctor's Rape-Murder Turns Violent 150 mg Semen In Kolkata Doctor's Body, Suspect Gang-Rape: Parents To Court Starbucks' Indian-Origin CEO, Recently Fired, Never Worked Past 6 pm Explained: Why Is Independence Day Celebrated At Red Fort Japan Set To Lift Megaquake Warning If There Is No "Major Seismic Activity" Is Great Britain Still Great? Nation Grapples With Deepening Poverty Crisis Track Latest News Live on NDTV.com and get news updates from India and around the world.