Overview
- Rescue 1122 and other agencies recovered the body from Nullah Leh near Gawalmandi late on Friday after a continuous search that lasted multiple days.
- Teams used line searches, scuba-assisted entries, breathing apparatus, heavy machinery and excavators to comb underground and main drains during the operation.
- The child fell into an open, debris-clogged drainage channel while playing in heavy rain earlier this week and was swept into the larger nullah.
- Rescuers handed the body to police for identification and legal formalities before it was released to the family for burial and mourners held a funeral in the boy’s ancestral village.
- Residents and officials blamed open, waste-filled drains for hampering the rescue and called on WASA and the Rawalpindi Municipal Corporation to cover and clear channels as the city prepares for the monsoon, with army teams set to inspect vulnerable drains.