Bareilly (UP), Jul 30 (PTI) A nine-year-old boy drowned allegedly after falling in a pit filled with water in Cantonment area here, police said on Sunday.
On Saturday afternoon, Rahul, a resident of Shivnagar, went to graze goats but did not return home and his family started searching for him and later informed the police, they said.
The boy, a student of class three at a primary school, reportedly drowned in a water-filled pit dug for a gas pipeline, about 200 metres away from the house, while he was grazing goats, they said.
Around 9 am on Sunday, the minor’s neighbour Ram Prakash saw the boy’s body in the pit and informed his family, police said.
The police reached the spot and sent the body for post-mortem. PTI COR ABN NB NB
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