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Boy Falls in Concealed Manhole and Drowns

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From United Press International

A boy playing on a South Bronx street stepped on a piece of carpet covering an open manhole and plunged 10 feet into a storm sewer, where he drowned, officials said today.

Jesus Cortez, 8, was playing on a pier at a dead-end street about 6 p.m. Sunday when he fell into the storm sewer, spokesmen for police and firefighters said. A firefighter brought the boy to the surface but rescuers could not revive the child.

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