4-year-old girl drowns in water bucket at Mumbai home

MUMBAI: A four-year-old girl drowned after she fell head first into a pail of water at her residence in Malad East recently.

Police said the child, Aakriti Yadav, had a mental health condition. She lived with her parents and two siblings at Rajiv Gandhi Nagar. Her parents work as daily wagers.

Early on Aug 19, Yadav's parents and relatives woke up early to fill up water as the locality receives a limited supply. They filled up buckets, tubs and drums.

Later Aakriti woke up and stumbled over to a bucket. She fell in head first. One of the family members spotted her legs dangling outside and raised an alarm.

She was rushed to a hospital where doctors pronounced her dead. Dindoshi police recorded a case of accidental death.