Noida: Three days after a four-year-old slipped into the Ganga canal at Daularajpur village in Dankaur, rescue teams on Monday called off the search operation. Officials said no trace of the child was found.The child, Adnan, fell into the canal around 7pm on Friday while playing at the edge of the canal. He was 200m away from his home. Teams from National Disaster Response Force and State Disaster Response Force, along with local police and divers, have exhaustively scanned the canal stretch.
Dankaur police station in-charge Munendra Singh said the specialised teams concluded their operation after an intensive three-day effort. Officials said divers searched several kilometres downstream and coordinated with irrigation authorities during the operation. The strong current and depth of the canal posed major challenges throughout the exercise. Equipment, including deep diving gear and communication sets, was used to scan the water, but no breakthrough was achieved.With formal rescue efforts withdrawn, the family is now left grappling with uncertainty.Adnan’s father, Israr, who works as a shuttering contractor, said he travelled long distances along the canal in the hope of finding his son. “I went 60 to 70 kilometres ahead, till Bulandshahr, searching along the canal, but I could not find my boy,” he said. “We believe he may have been swept away across district boundaries.”Villagers in Daularajpur said the past three days were tense and heartbreaking. Many gathered daily along the canal bank, watching the divers at work and praying for a miracle.
