A one-and-half-year-old child drowned to death in a bucket at Nandanam in Chennai on Saturday (October 25, 2025).
Chennai city police said the couple Sriram and Santana Lakshmi had a one-and-half year-old boy Dhanish. They reside at the fourth floor of the Jogi Thottam Housing Board apartment in Nandanam.
On Saturday, Sriram had gone work in a private company in Ambattur, and his wife Santana Lakshmi took the child to a neighbour’s house in the same apartment complex, to enquire about her health.
When the mother had put the child down and had gone to talk with the neighbour in another room, the toddler entered the bathroom and fell into a bucket filled with water. After a few minutes, Sanatana Lakshmi started searching for her child and found the boy drowned in the bathroom. The child was rushed to a private hospital where he was pronounced brought dead.
The Teynampet police have filed a case and are investigating.
Published – October 26, 2025 03:47 pm IST
