Pune: What followed two days of incessant rainfall and flooding in the city was a sight of death, destruction and despair. Roads lined with sludge, homeless people, hundreds of broken vehicles lying around and families waiting for their missing members was a common picture in the flood-affected Amil Canal, Tangewala Colony, Sinhagad road, Dhanakawdi and other areas.

For the Sangle family, their 26-year-old Victor has not returned home yet. The Chartered Accountant was driving towards Wanowrie around 6 pm on Wednesday night to meet his aunt when his car fell off into a canal near the Shinde Chatri area bridge. Sangle signalled motorists behind him of danger when his car fell into the canal. The incident was captured in the CCTV camera installed on a nearby building. He had also called his cousin claiming that he was drowning. Army personal have been searching for him for two days now, with the family, which includes his brother Major Stefen Sangle, "hoping to see him alive." Sangle's car was found around 11 am on Friday.