A seven-year-old boy today died after drowning into a water-filled pit dug to erect a pillar at an under-construction building site in Park Street area here.
The incident happened at around 11 AM when Mohammad Abdul Rehman Khan while playing went to the site of the under-construction on 12 Colin Lane under Park Street Police Station limits and fell into the pit, police said.
Not seeing him for a while the child's father Jakir Zamal went out looking for Abdul and found a pair of slippers floating on the water in the pit, a senior officer of Kolkata Police said.
"The father dived into the water and found a body into the water. He pulled it out only to find that it was that of his son," he said.
The father and locals rushed the boy to a nearby hospital were he was declared "brought dead", the officer said.
A complaint was lodged at the Park Street Police Station but nobody was arrested in connection with the incident.
However, locals alleged "absolute negligence" on part of the construction company as the site was kept "unmanned" by anybody which led to the mishap.
A complaint has been lodged against the construction company at the Park Street police station.
