Unattended: Child falls into drain, dies

GUJRAT: An eight-year-old girl died here on Saturday after she fell into a drain on GTS Chowk. Police said the girl, a resident of Eidgah in Lala Musa, was on her way to Gujrat with her family, when they stopped at the GTS Chowk for a meal. They said while the family was having their meal, she saw a cat and ran after it. She fell into a 12-foot deep drain. A Rescue team was called and the girl was pulled out after one-and-a-half-hour. She was taken to Aziz Bhatti Shaheed Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 22^nd, 2013.