The body of the boy, a Class 3 student, was found on Thursday morning, police said.
A nine-year-old boy lost his life after falling into a canal while trying to catch a drifting kite in Nagpur city, police officials said on Thursday.
The victim, Dayashankar Awdhesh Prajapati, and his elder brother Kailash (13), residents of Mahadula, were chasing a drifting kite at around 1 pm on Wednesday when they suddenly slipped into a nearby canal, they said.
A few bystanders managed to pull out Kailash Prajapati from the canal, but his younger brother was washed away in the water current, said the officials.
The body of the boy, a Class 3 student, was found on Thursday morning, they said, adding a case of accidental death was registered by the Koradi police under whose jurisdiction the incident took place.
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