A four-year-old boy died after he was washed away by gushing waters when he accidentally stepped into an uncovered nullah (drain) at Pragati Nagar under Bachupally police limits on Tuesday, after intensive four hour search the body was finally retrieved from Thurka Cheruvu into which the drain flows.
The police said Mithun, son of Santosh Reddy, a private employee, and Shyamala, a homemaker, from NRI Colony, was outside their home at around 11.30 a.m., a little after the heavy rain subsided.
A corresponding footage, retrieved from a nearby CCTV, showed the boy walking on the edge of the colony road behind an elderly man. While the man took a longer step to cross the uncovered portion of the flooded nullah, the boy attempting to cross it fell in, and instantly disappeared.
