Bhubaneswar, Sept. 20 -- The drain mishap in the Odisha Capital city on Sunday which has apparently claimed the life of a 15-year-old boy has reopened old wounds.

Looking back the incidents from the death of nine-year-old student Pupun Biswal from Behera Sahi area in Nayapali, who was washed away in an open drain on August 26, 2015, to the untimely loss of a home tutor in 2017 in a similar mishap series of such accidents in Bhubaneswar over the past few years bear striking testimony to the claim how storm drains are posing grave threats to commuters and increasingly turning into death traps for many in Odisha's Smart City.

A child was also killed in a similar accident in 2018 while an elderly woman also had to lose her life after fallin...