Noida: A 27-year-old man drowned on Thursday after he allegedly slipped into an open drain along a waterlogged road in Sector 58 while walking to his workplace, police said.Aryan, a native of Farrukhabad who lived at Chora village in Sector 22, worked at an iron manufacturing company. Police said an auto-rickshaw dropped him near his workplace around 8.50 am as the stretch saw heavy waterlogging. Spotting sparks from an electric pole, Aryan veered off the road onto a raised path running alongside a drain to avoid it. But the surrounding road was so severely flooded that the drain itself was invisible, and he stepped into the uncovered channel and fell in, police said.Bystanders tried to pull him out, but the strong current swept him further into the drain before rescue teams, working alongside police, recovered him. He was taken to a nearby hospital, where doctors declared him dead.Police said the cause of death would be confirmed by autopsy. The body has been handed over to his family, and no formal complaint has been filed so far. Cops said they are reviewing CCTV footage to reconstruct the sequence of events.Family members said Aryan was his household’s sole earner. His father died two years ago, and his mother lives alone in their native village.The incident has drawn sharp criticism, with residents blaiming Noida Authority for leaving the drain covered only in some stretches.The incident is the latest in a series of rain-related accidents across NCR, which was battered by heavy rainfall on Thursday, causing widespread waterlogging, traffic congestion and damage to public infrastructure. In neighbouring Ghaziabad, five people, including three minors, died in various rain-related incidents.In Delhi, a 45-year-old man allegedly drowned after rainwater accumulated inside his jhuggi in Sunder Nagri on Friday. Dheeraj, cops said, was under the influence of alcohol when he allegedly slipped inside the jhuggi after rainwater entered the room and drowned.
