Bhubaneswar: A minor boy fell into an overflowing drain during the rain in the city on Sunday and has remained untraced.
According to sources, the 15-year-old boy Jyotirmaya Behera was going to his tuition class in Shatabdi Nagar Bank Colony of Siripur in the afternoon when he fell into a the drain.
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Since he was wading through knee-deep water on the road, he might not have noticed the drain overflowing with rainwater and fell into it, the sources said.
On being informed, police and Fire personnel rushed to the spot and started a search operation to trace the missing boy. But Jyotirmaya was yet to be found and the search operation was going on till the report was filed.
