Boy drowns after falling into manhole during rain

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The incident has left the Russians angered.- Alamy Image
The incident has left the Russians angered.- Alamy Image

A video shows the boy's grandmother going down the manhole to save him.

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Published: Tue 7 Aug 2018, 3:00 PM

Last updated: Tue 7 Aug 2018, 6:08 PM

In a horrific incident in Russia, a 7-year-old boy fell down a manhole and drowned after he was washed away in severe flooding in the Sochi River.
Video of the tragic incident on Mirror.uk shows the boy walking with his grandmother on a pavement in a flooded street in Sochiwhen he slips down an open drainage sewer. The grandmother then desperately runs down the pavement to try to grab the boy but there is no sight of him. She then runs to other side of the pavement to access the next manhole leading to the culvert, hoping to retrieve the boy.
The video shows the frantic grandmother going down the manhole to save the boy as onlookers wait for her to emerge. The unnamed grandmother was later rescued.
The boy hailed from the Russian region of Tatarstan fell and is reported to have banged his head badly as he fell into the drainage duct. According to the locals, the cover of the manhole was washed away by the sudden flood waters.
The boy was swept away into the nearby Black Sea where his body was found by divers three hours later between Delphin and Svirsky beaches while the grandmother is in intensive care.
The incident has left Russians angered who pointed out to lack of safety in the drainage system in Sochi. People outpoured their anger online and one user wrote: "You come here for holiday and find the sewage well open and filled with water. Somebody has to be jailed for this.. No-one expects to fall under ground when walking on a road." Another user wrote: "The sewage cover was in place, it was washed away by force of water as it usually happens in Sochi."
While, the authorities in Sochi, Russia's leading summer holiday resort, have paid for the father of the dead 7-year-old boy to fly to the city and are also funding treatment of the bereaved grandmother.
The grandmother and the boy were living in a hotel on the opposite side of the street where the tragedy occurred. 


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