Bengaluru: Search for 6-year-old Husna’s body continues

Bengaluru: Rescue teams failed to trace the body of 6-year-old Husna Baig, one of the three children who were drowned in a manhole by a paramour of their mother Fayum on August 27, even after searching for it for the second day on Wednesday in the Mini Forest in HBR Layout in K G Hall.

Personnel from NDRF, Fire and Emergency Services Department and other agencies resumed their search early on Wednesday morning. But even after several hours, the search team couldn’t trace the body of the girl, who was drowned along with two of her siblings.

The team found Husna’s schoolbag on Tuesday evening near the mini-forest, but now suspect that the body would have got washed away further down the stream. On Tuesday evening, the search team had found the highly decomposed body of the oldest son of Nazima Begum stuck between the pipes. The police on Monday night had fished out the body of four-year-old Raheem Baig.

On Wednesday, the search team had to break a 50-metre-long pipe which connected the manhole with the main drain line. “The team couldn’t trace the body after a day-long search. There is a possibility that the body might have got washed away further, or the accused has thrown it somewhere else,” said a fire department official.

“As we suspected that Fayum has misled us, we questioned him again. We also asked him whether he had sexually assaulted the girl child and thrown the body somewhere else. But he maintained that he had drowned the three children in the same manhole,” said a senior police officer.

The search team who ended the operation around 7.30 pm on Wednesday will shift their operation from HBR Layout Mini Forest to Main Canal situated on Ring Road near KEB office on Thursday morning.