A harrowing incident unfolded as the heavy rains lashed the capital city of Maharashtra on Wednesday. The heavy rains disrupted train services between Thakurli and Kalyan, leading to a heartbreaking incident where a four-month old girl was swept away in a nullah.
Lighthouse Journalism found a few claims being circulated on the internet, which claimed that the baby has been found alive, though this looks like happy news, but is sadly not true. The NDRF team is still searching for the baby and the body has not been recovered yet.
Claim:
Twitter user महाराष्ट्र रेल्वे प्रवासी संघटना shared the update on Twitter
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Other users too are sharing the claim.
A leading Marathi news website too shared the viral claim leading to the confusion.
Investigation:
In the first step of investigation we checked for the news reports about the same, if the baby would have been found, this would have been a happy news and there would have been several news reports about the same. However we did not find news reports.
We spoke to a senior journalist covering the incident. He told us that the search is still on for the baby. The currents were strong and hence it has become difficult to find the baby, though the NDRF team has been working tirelessly since the evening.
In the next step of investigation we contacted Kalyan tehsildar, Jayraj Deshmukh. He told us that the viral news reports about the baby being found alive are false. The NDRF team is still working tirelessly to search for the baby.
Conclusion: The viral posts about the four-month old baby that drowned in the nullah, being alive are false. The search operation of NDRF is still underway.
