India, Feb. 16 -- Accompanying his mother for a photoshoot, a three-year-old boy in Karnataka's Bengaluru drowned in an artificial pond while playing in the studio.

Police said on Sunday that the incident occurred at a photo studio on the outskirts of the city, in Giddanahalli, under the Madanayakanahalli police station limits on Saturday, news agency PTI reported.

While the woman was busy with her friend's maternity photoshoot, the child, who was playing nearby, reportedly slipped into the artificial water pond and drowned.

After a while, the woman realised that her child was nowhere to be seen. She and the others began frantically searching for the boy, and subsequently, found the child in the pool, police said.

The boy was rushed t...