The missing case of six-year-old boy, Shaik Suleman Ashraf, turned into a tragedy when the police retrieved the body from the outfall drainage at his house in Old Raja Rajeswaripeta in Vijayawada on Thursday.
A first class student, Suleman, who went out for playing was missing since Wednesday evening. After searching in vain for the boy, his mother, Shaik Sharmila lodged a complaint with the Two Town police around midnight.
On Thursday morning, police along with the sanitation workers launched a search in the open drainage and found him dead. The body was sent to the Government Hospital mortuary for post-mortem.
