BIDAR, July 28 -- An eight-year-old boy drowned after slipping into a water filled pit dug for a railway construction project in Karnataka's Raichur district on Sunday, police said.

The child had accompanied his parents to their agricultural land near Kapagal village in Manvi taluk when he wandered off while playing. His parents later found him in a pit, about 9 to 10 feet deep, that had been excavated for a railway column and had filled with water, according to the police.

"An incident occurred near Kapagal village in Manvi taluk at around 10.30 am on Sunday. After some time, when the parents realised their son was missing, they searched the surrounding area," Manvi Police Inspector Somashekar Kencha Reddy told HT.

"The parents found ...