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LAHORE: A rescue operation was underway on Wednesday night after a woman and her daughter fell into an open sewer at a construction site in Bhatti Chowk.<\/p>\n
A Rescue 1122 spokesperson said that teams were dispatched immediately and launched a vigorous search operation. However, officials had yet to find any trace of the woman and her child.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe woman\u2019s husband is at the scene and has confirmed that she fell into the sewerage line,\u201d the spokesperson told Dawn<\/em>. \u201cThe operation is ongoing and Rescue 1122 will continue searching until the bodies are recovered,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, a police official said that the provincial government had begun construction work to expand Bhatti Chowk near Ali Hajveri Tomb, and the incident took place in an area dug up to lay sewerage pipelines.<\/p>\n Citing locals, he said that workers had left a part of the sewer uncovered. Later, the wastewater entered the site, and the woman and her daughter fell into the sewer, he said.<\/p>\n Last month, a seven-year-old boy in Punjab\u2019s Bahawalpur district fell into<\/a> an open manhole in Dhanote town near Lodhran city and died.<\/p>\n The same month, a three-year-old boy\u2019s body was recovered <\/a>from an open manhole in Karachi\u2019s Gulshan-i-Iqbal area, more than 12 hours after the incident was first reported.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n