Boy drowns in open nala near house

HYDERABAD: A four-year-old boy accidentally fell into an open nala and drowned at a slum near Reddy Colony in Chandanagar on Friday afternoon. M Shiva Kumar, 4, was the son of Sailu, a lighting decoration worker residing in the huts opposite to Krishnaveni School.
Shiva and his elder sister, Anjali, 6, were returning from a grocery store . "While trying to cross an open nala, Shiva fell and drowned. Anjali did not see her brother falling and went home," Chandanagar inspector N Tirupati Rao said.
Later, Sailu and his wife started looking for the boy. "They noticed Shiva in the drainage and rushed him to Ankura hospital in Madinaguda. The duty doctor declared him brought dead," the inspector said. Police registered a case under Section 174 of CrPC and sent the body for postmortem exam.