Chennai: A two-year-old boy sank at his home in Sivalingapuram in the Korattur here on Monday.
The boy, identified as nithishwaran, played in the backyard when he fell into the well and sank.
The Koratt police investigated the case said that the boy might walk on a plastic sheet placed on a well.
The sheet might have given up and the boy fell to the well, according to the police.
Nithishwaran’s parents, Satish Kumar, 36, and Jayanthi, were busy with housework when the accident occurred.
After a while, they looked for their missing son.
They found that plastic sheets on a damaged well.
Satish Kumar entered a well with the help of several neighbors and saved the boy.
Nitisharan rushed to a private hospital, where the doctors examined and declared it died on arrival.
The body was handed over to parents after postmortem at Medical College Kilpatuk Hospital.
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