PUNE: A 36-year-old daily-wage worker and his two sons, aged 13 and 10, drowned in a quarry at Kusgaon village near Kamshet, about 65km from here, on Sunday morning. The man jumped into the quarry to save his two sons on realising that they were drowning a short while after they had entered the water for a swim, police said.
The Pune Rural police said the deceased, Piraji Sule, had taken his sons Sainath and Sachin to enjoy waterfalls in the hilly terrain near Kusgaon. “There is a quarry at the foothills, which is now filled with water due to the rain,” an officer from the Kamshet police told TOI.
He said Sule’s two sons had entered the quarry. When they started drowning, Sule jumped in to save them. However, he too started drowning. “A local man, who had brought his cattle for grazing, raised an alarm,” the officer said.
He said the locals ran towards the quarry and brought the trio out of the water. “They were sent to a hospital and were pronounced dead,” the officer said.
The officer said that Sule is survived by his wife and a five-year-old son.
