Mounesh Vishwakarma
Daijiworld Media Network—Bantwal (RD/CN)
Bantwal, Aug 14: A boy drowned in a pond on private property in Kanyana village, near Vittal here on Sunday August 14.
The deceased has been identified as 12-year-old Mohammed Irfan, son of Abdul Khader and Maimoona, resident of Okkettoor, near here.
Irfan was living at his relative’s house at Kanyana village and studying in Class V at Okkettoor School. He had gone for a swim in the pond situated on the plantation of neighbour Kantappa Hegde. It is thought that he slipped and drowned. Expert swimmers from B C Road retrieved his dead body.
The autopsy had been done at Vittal Community Hospital and Vittal police registered a case in this regard.
Abdul Khader works in a factory at B C Road here and his family lives in acute poverty.