Hyderabad: Relative retrieves body of washed away man

Hyderabad: The family and relatives were forced to retrieve the body of a man who was washed away in a swollen nala in the Old City on Monday. 

Wahed Khan, 60, an autorickshaw driver from Al Jubail Colony, had slipped into the nala and was washed away in the gushing water on Sunday evening. A few locals tried to save him but in vain.

Khan’s family approached the police who called up the GHMC. On Monday afternoon, the family and locals who were searching for the body along the nala and found it behind the Falaknuma railway station.

The family then started a mammoth exercise the retrieve the body from the 20-feet wide nala. Mr Moti Naik, husband of GHMC corporator K. Thara Bai, said that he had informed the GHMC when he came to know that the body had been found.

“As it was getting late, the family and our party functionaries ventured into the nala and retrieved the body,” Mr Naik said.

Chandrayangutta inspector Y. Prakash Reddy informed the local fire station at Moghalpura, behind the GHMC south zone office. 

A fire tender reached the spot within 20 minutes and but before they could start the work, Mustafa, son of the victim and three others had retrieved the body.

“We waited for close to two hours but no one to come forward to help. The police contacted the GHMC and fire services who carry out emergency duties,” said Mr Farooq, a relative of the victim.