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Pune rains: Girl who alerted water levels, gets carried away by stream
Updated On: 29 September, 2019 07:30 AM IST | Pune | Chaitraly Deshmukh, Ranjeet Jadhav
21-year-old who alerted family of rising water levels, slips into water stream
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Ananta and Suvarna Komane, parents of Smita. Pics/Pradeep Dhivar
Saswad: Forty kilometres from Pune city, in Saswad taluka, around four people are missing. The Komanes the seventh descendants of freedom fighter Umaji Naik say they have had to conduct the funeral of their dear one on the road. With their own home flooded, they have taken shelter at a neighbour's place.
Smita alias Chakuli Ananta Komane, 22, a second year of BSc student, was sitting outside her house, and studying when she noticed water levels rising. She alerted the villagers, but while trying to help others she and her grandmother Gajarabai, 75, got carried away by the water.
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