Boy drowns in pool as hands get stuck in pressure pipe

A 10-year-old boy drowned in the swimming pool of Poorva Sunshine apartments on Sarjapur main road here on Thursday evening. Siddharth Nambiar drowned with his hands stuck in the pressure pipe and water supply inlet of the pool.

He was a resident of the apartment and a class 3 student at a private school. He was the only child of his parents Jayaprakash, a software professional, and Preethi, a teacher at a private school. The family hails from Kerala.

Siddharth, who knew how to swim, went for a dip in the four-feet-deep pool on Thursday evening. He swam over to the side of the pool with the pressure pipe and held onto to it with one hand, while he tried putting the other hand into one of the inlets on the pool’s floor. But his hands got stuck in the inlet as well as the pressure pipe and he could not free them both, said the police.

When Siddharth screamed for help, children playing around and apartment dwellers, including his grandfather, ran towards the pool. One of them called the police and the fire and emergency services. Firemen rushed to the apartment and shifted the boy to a nearby private hospital. However, Siddharth was declared brought dead, said the police.
“He was caught in a strange position as one hand was stuck in the pressure pipe and the other in the inlet which did not have a mesh. He could not free his hand as the opening of the inlet was small and he drowned even as many people watched haplessly,” a senior police officer said.

“Initially, Siddharth’s parents were hesitant to file a complaint but we convinced them that they have to lodge one as per the requirements of the law. We have registered a case of unnatural death,” said the HSR Layout police.