HYDRAA ends search for man missing after stormwater drain fall

Nearly a week after a 70-year-old man, Balaiah, a resident of Prem Nagar in Hafeezpet, was reported missing, search operations in Hyderabad have been called off as his body is yet to be traced.

The DRF teams of the Hyderabad Disaster Response and Asset Protection Agency (Hydraa) and the Cyberabad Municipal Corporation (CMC) carried out extensive searches after the man reportedly fell into a stormwater drain work site at



Vaishali Nagar in Miyapur on the night of July 28. 

However, with no clue to his whereabouts, the Hydraa and CMC teams have stopped the operation.

Hydraa also deployed drones as part of the search, but the man could not be located, a senior Hydraa official told media on Monday. 

The search operation was called off as his body was yet to be traced, the official said.