A 73-year-old resident of Goregaon West went out for a morning walk on Tuesday, and while returning home he lost his way and somehow reached Aarey in the East, where he fell into a mud pit. Aarey police, who rescued the man, Lalitkumar Mansukhlal Seth, after receiving a call from someone in the evening, said he had spent nearly 5 hours in the ditch.

“On Tuesday, we received a distress call. Our team rushed to the spot and found a senior citizen in a mud pit. We rushed him to Jogeshwari-based Trauma Care hospital where doctors gave him first aid, checked his health and told us that he could go home. Seth was unable to come out of the pit, and thinks he was there for over 4-5 hours,” Assistant Inspector Yuvraj Inamdar of Aarey police station told mid-day.