Thane, August 30: An 18-year-old youth from Manor in Thane district was washed away in the Vaitarna river where he had gone to immerse the Ganpati idol last evening on the seventh day of the festival, a delayed reports reaching the district police headquarters here said today.
The washed away boy is identified as Shiv Dashrath Dalvi and added that he had gone along with several other villagers for the immersion in the river.
Immediately upon coming to know about the boy being missing, a search was launched both by the villagers and the police but till late this evening the body was not recovered, police said.
This is the first mishap of its kind in the district during this festival where several thousands of idols have already been immersed in various parts of the district where numerous processions were taken out on Satuday, and they passed off peacefully, the police said.
—Agencies