6-YEAR-OLD DROWNS AFTER FALLING INTO OPEN TANK..

A six-year-old girl drowned in an underground tank that was left uncovered in an under-construction building in southeast Delhi’s Prahladpur in India on Tuesday evening.

Police said the incident took place when Arpita, the six-year-old kindergarten student, stepped out of her home and reached the under-construction building while playing.

Police have booked the builder of the under-construction structure for not building a fence around the water tank, under IPC Section 304A (causing death due to negligence).

The girl's father, Sunil Kumar, said, “She told me she is playing outside, but I did not know she would go to the building. Ten minutes after she told me she was going out to play, I heard people screaming. By the time I rushed out, she had already drowned. We took her to the hospital but they declared her dead.”