A two-year-old girl, Mounika, accidentally fell into an uncovered borewell near her house at P P Palem in SPS Nellore district, even as her bewildered parents looked helplessly.
As they raised an alarm, neighbours gathered at the spot and launched rescue efforts but as the borewell was about 25 feet deep, their efforts proved futile.
The village Sarpanch, on hearing about the incident, engaged an excavator to create a wide crater.
In the Guntur district incident, four children drowned in a village pond at Obulanayudupalem this afternoon.
The four boys, students of class IX, went to the pond for a swim with four other students after playing cricket, but got caught in a swirl and died as they did not know swimming.
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