Hyderabad: Three-year-old boy drowns in pool in Petbasheerabad

Three-year-old boy drowned while playing near his Petbasheerabad home on Friday

Hyderabad: In a tragic incident, a three-year-old boy drowned while playing near his home in Petbasheerabad on Friday.

The boy K. Ankith, the son of Hanslal and Kavitha, both construction workers from Bihar and a resident of Devaryemjal, suspected he was playing alone when he slipped into a water-filled sump near the entrance of his home .

“His parents realized he had been missing for a long time, searched around and found him in a sinkhole,” police said, adding that he was immediately taken to a nearby hospital where doctors pronounced him dead.

Petbasheerabad police are investigating.