In a highly tragic incident, a two-year-old boy drowned in a water-filled Handi (large pot) at Samantrapali village under the Deogarh police station on Sunday.
According to reports, Prince, son of Prashant Sahu of the village, was playing near the pot in the morning when he fell inside it. He was rescued and rushed to the District Headquarters Hospital, where doctors declared him dead.
A pall of gloom descended on the locality after the death of the boy. Police have registered an unnatural death case into the incident.