Champua: In a tragic incident, an old man here died after he fell into an abandoned well at Kalikaprasad village under this police limits in Keonjhar district Thursday. The body was found floating in the well Friday morning, police said. The deceased was identified as Gourishankar Rout, a resident of the same village.
According to sources, Gourishankar, after finishing his lunch, left home around 3.00 pm Thursday. When he did not return home late into the night, his family members started searching for him frantically. However, they were unable to find him.
Other residents of the village spotted Gourishankar’s body floating in the well Friday morning. They informed his family members as well as the fire brigade. A fire brigade team arrived at the village shortly afterwards and brought out Gourishankar’s body from the well. After being informed, personnel from the Champua police station reached the spot and sent Gourishankar’s body for postmortem. A case of unnatural death was registered on a complaint lodged by Suprakash Rout, son of the deceased. After registering a case (No-13/24), police have initiated a probe into the incident. They are talking to villagers to find out how Gourishankar fell into the abandoned well. As of now, police have ruled out foul play and suspect it to be a case of an accident.