Case booked after 13-year-old boy drowns at water storage point in Forest Academy

A 13-year-old lad drowned aft slipping into a h2o retention constituent astatine Keerthivanam wrong the Forest Academy connected Sunday evening. The Petbasheerbad constabulary booked a case.

The deceased has been identified arsenic Nagesh, a Class V pupil of Shantinikethan School successful Jeedimetla and a nonmigratory of Dulapally.

According to the officials, the lad had visited the spot on with 2 friends from his colony erstwhile the incidental occurred.

Police said the boys were playing adjacent a h2o retention operation erstwhile Nagesh accidentally slipped and fell in. Locals rushed to the spot and, with the assistance of exigency services, shifted him to a backstage hospital, wherever doctors declared him brought dead.

A lawsuit has been registered and further probe is underway to ascertain the circumstances starring to the incident.