Erode (TN), Sep 20 (PTI) A six-year-old boy studying class one was found dead inside a building foundation pit here.

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According to the police, Abinesh, son of Gurusamy of Umareddiyur Sundarampalayam Colony after attending school, came to the house on Monday. Few minutes later, he went to play.

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As he did not return home till 8 pm, the parents grew suspicious and searched him along with some neighbours.

They located the boy inside a seven-feet deep foundation pit of a building near his house. They removed the boy, took him to Government Hospital, Anthiyur, where the doctors declared him brought dead.

The Ammapettai police, who registered a case said when the boy was playing near the foundation pit, slipped into it that was filled with four-feet of water. The boy drowned and suffocated to death on the spot, the police added.

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