Thane, Nov 19 (PTI) A two-year-old boy suffered injuries after plunging nearly 20 feet into an open sewer chamber in Maharashtra’s Thane city, officials said on Wednesday.

The incident occurred near the Dnyanasadhana college on Tuesday evening, said Yasin Tadvi, chief of the Disaster Management Cell of the Thane Municipal Corporation.

Hamdan Gufran Qureshi, who lives in the Rabodi area of the city, had come to stay with his relatives. He was walking along the footpath with his mother when he lost his balance and fell into an open drainage chamber.

Local residents pulled out the child before the authorities arrived. Qureshi was first taken to the District Government Hospital before being shifted to a private medical facility in the city.

“A fall of nearly 20 feet is extremely dangerous,

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