In a tragic incident, a three-and-a-half-year-old child died on Saturday morning after he fell into a septic tank of a toilet in Kuchinda.The incident happened at the septic tank of an under construction girls’ hostel in the premises of Balaram High School in Kusumi village.
Reportedly, the ill-fated child, son of Kartik Kissan who stays adjacent to the school premises, fell into the rain water filled open septic tank of the toilet while loitering with its mother at around 6 am in the morning.The mother, who was unmindful of the incident, came to know about it only when two passersby informed her of a child floating in the tank. The parents rescued the child and rushed him to the Sub-divisional hospital at Kuchinda where doctors declared him ‘brought dead’.