In a freak incident at Bhavaninagar, an eight-year-old-boy drowned in a water sump at the site of a house under construction on Tuesday night.
According to Bhavani nagar police, deceased Huzaif Khan (8), son of Iftekhar Khan, and a student from Kummarwadi in Bhavaninagar went out to play with his friends on Tuesday evening but did not come home.
In the night, his family members found his body in the sump near his house. Sub-Inspector N Srisailam registered a case of negligence under section 304 A against the house owner and the dead body was shifted to Osmania Hospital mortuary for postmortem.
After the autopsy, the deceased's body was handed over to his relatives, and further investigations began. (INN)