Navi Mumbai: Two boys drowned in Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation’s (NMMC) idol immersion pond in Kopri village, Vashi node on Wednesday.Locals said Ganesh Gupta (9) and Golu Mansuri (12) likely stepped into the pond to fetch coins thrown by devotees during immersion of Durga idols the previous day. APMC police, who lodged an accidental death case, have not confirmed this.Purushottam Jadhav, divisional officer of Vashi fire station, said, “We received a call at 10.48am informing us that two minors had drowned in the pond. Our rescue team reached the spot around 11am. Two eyewitnesses claimed they had seen the two boys drowning about 20m from a floater used for Durga idol immersions.” The boys were pulled out in 15 minutes and police rushed them to NMMC hospital in Vashi, where they were declared brought dead.
