Bhopal: 8-year-old boy drowns in well while flying kite

BHOPAL: An 8-year-old boy died after he fell inside a well in Gandhi Nagar on Sunday afternoon. The deceased Farhan Khan was a resident of Abbas Nagar. He would assist his father who runs a shop in the area. On Sunday, the child had gone for kite flying with his friends near BDA quarters where he fell into a well.

The local residents received information about the child from other children who were also playing around. All of them rushed the child to hospital where doctors pronounced him brought dead. Gandhi Nagar police said the child and his friends had left home in morning and went near the well at BDA quarters where they were flying kites. Police have registered a case and have initiated a probe, said Gandhi Nagar SHO Nilesh Awasthi.