CURATED BY – MOHMMAD MUNEER | CITYCHIEFNEWS

Shahdol, due to continuous rain in the district, rivers and streams are overflowing. More floods are being seen in small drains, due to which incidents are also happening. In one such incident in Byahari police station area, a dhaba employee was swept away when he was trying to cross it at night. About three feet of water was flowing above the drain, due to which he was swept away. His body was seen the next day morning. According to the information, a young man returning home after working as a laborer in Van Bihar Dhaba of Byahari police station area was swept away in the strong current of Rapta, whose body was found on Sunday morning. There is a small culvert (rapta) just before the house of the deceased youth in Barkach village, when the youth was going home after work from the dhaba, the rapta was in spate, the cyclist Ramsevak Patel 32 years, son of Janaki Patel was crossing the small bridge on his bicycle in a flow of three feet of water, during this time he was swept away and died. On Sunday morning when the water in the bridge decreased and people saw, a bicycle and a dead body were seen at some distance below the bridge, the bicycle was lying near the body of the youth, who has been identified as Ramsevak. After the information of the incident was given to the police by the villagers, Byawari police reached the spot and started investigating the matter. Actually, it has been raining continuously for three days in Byawari area, due to which many rivers and streams are in spate. In the past few days, the bridge got damaged due to the water flowing over the bridge on the road which was drying up, due to which the connection of 50 villages has been cut off from the headquarters. Papaundh road has also been closed since last evening, due to heavy rains the Samdhin river was in spate, after which the road has been closed. Police has deployed police force by putting up stoppers, and people coming and going are being stopped, while the district administration has made people aware and said that do not cross the bridge if water is flowing over it, but people are not ready to listen, due to which such incidents are happening.
They say.
The youth was returning home after work, when there was water over the small bridge, the youth riding a bicycle was crossing it, during which he fell down from the bridge and was swept away in the strong current, due to which he died. On Sunday morning, the villagers have given information about the case after seeing the dead body. The case is being investigated by sending a police team to the spot, at present a case has been registered on the matter.
Arun Pandey, Incharge
Police Station Byohari