A 16-year-old boy drowned while swimming in a water-filled quarry in Maharashtra's Thane district, a civic official said.
The incident took place around 3.40 pm when the boy Rohit Suryaban Raut had ventured into the quarry in Diva area for a swim, said Avinash Sawant, chief of the regional disaster management cell said.
Local firemen along with the RDMC team fished out the body, which was sent to a government hospital for post-mortem, he said.The police have registered a case of accidental death, it was stated.
Earlier in a similar incident, Two youths, including the son of former BJP district rural president Shiv Patel drowned to death in river Narmada in Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh, police said. The incident took place on Sunday while the pair in the company of other friends were taking a bath at the Dadda Ghat on the river under the Tilwara Ghat police station.