Silvester D' Souza

Daijiworld Media Network – Kundapur (EP)

Kundapur, May 26: An eleven years old girl slipped, fell and died in a drinking water pond dug on the side of a lake at Kodabail Maroor in Hengavally on Thursday, May 25.

Swathi is first daughter among two children of Kodabail residents Saraswathi and Mohan couple. She had passed 5th standard recently at Thombattu Durgaparameshwari School.

Thombattu Lake had dried up without water. Therefore the residents had dug a pond near the lake for water. Swathi had gone out to play with her friends near the lake while she slipped in the pond.

While Swathi fell in the pond, other children thought that Swathi was hiding behind sapling. They went searching for her at her house. The family of Swathi along with neighbors went searching for her.

After a long search in other places, they searched in the pond and found her dead body in it. Though Swathi was lifted and rushed to Halady hospital, the doctors there said that she had died.

Swathi had earned the love and affection from people in the vicinity with her humble and innocent behavior. Her death has brought immense grief and loss to her family. Hundreds of people arrived and conveyed their condolences.

A complaint stands registered in Shankaranarayana police station.

Kundapur police circle inspector Manjappa, PSI Sunil Kumar and staff visited the place of the incident.