Mare nathi marvu, Mummy. Mare paani maan doobvu nathi.” Her tearful cry for help is what saved Ayushi, her sister Shivanshu and her mother Kusum from certain death in the Narmada canal. Her shouts were heard by three security guards manning the canal at Sughad bridge in Gandhinagar. They rushed to the spot, pushed aside Kusum and saved the two children.
to R: Harisinh Thakur, Santoshsinh Chauhan and Rahulsinh Chauhan rushed to the rescue in the nick of time
The incident occurred at 4.30 pm on Wednesday. Kusum (27), Ayushi (6) and Shivanshu (2) arrived at Sughad bridge in a shuttle jeep. The woman looked around. Seeing no one, she slipped down the canal embankment and entered the water with the kids. Kusum held their heads, pushed them into the water and began dragging them to the middle of the channel. Sputtering and fighting for breath, Ayushi pleaded for her life. “Mummy maare marvu nathi. Maare doobvu nathi (I do not want to die, Mummy. I do not want to drown),” she cried even as she saw her mother thrust her sister below the water’s surface.
In the nick of time
Kusum hugs her daughters Ayushi and Shivanshu A few metres beyond the bridge, security guards Santoshsinh Chauhan, Harisinh Thakur and Rahulsinh Chauhan were cleaning algae stuck to the canal walls. Hearing a girl cry, Santosh looked around and saw Kusum trying to drown the kids at the opposite side of the canal. He directed Rahul to bring a rope to the other end and swam across to help the children. Harisinh followed him.
Santosh pushed Kusum towards the bank and dived deeper into the water to look for the girls. The guards found the children even as Rahul arrived there with a rope. He used it to pull his colleagues and the kids out of the canal.
Meanwhile, a passer-by called 108 emergency service and Adalaj police. Since Kusum and the girls had not ingested much water, they were taken to the police station where the incident was noted in the police diary.
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