Bombay Hospital doctor's body found near Worli seashore

Dr Amarapurkar, a senior gastroenterologist of the Bombay Hospital.

The body of Dr Deepak Amrapurkar, who had fallen in a manhole two days ago, has been found on Thursday at Worli seashore.

Dr Amarapurkar, a senior gastroenterologist of the Bombay Hospital, was last seen on August 29 when he asked his driver to drop him off near his home at Elphinstone Road.

Witnesses claimed that he fell into an open manhole on a flooded road. The doctor went missing while he was walking towards his residence when it was raining heavily, the official added.

Torrential rains pounded the metropolis for two days.

The city gauged a whopping 298 mm of rainfall, the highest in a day in August since 1997.

(With agency inputs)