A woman and her six-year-old son died after falling into a sump at Yelahanka on Thursday. The police said the woman, identified as Kavita, 30, hailed from Gauribidanur and was working as a house help. She was staying in a house at Yelahanka.
The Yelahanka New Town police said her son Pavan first fell into the sump at an empty site while playing. The woman, in a bid to save the child, jumped into the sump and both drowned to death. The police have registered a case of unnatural death. The woman was staying in the house where she was working.