A 2-year-old boy drowned in a water container in Barangay Nabulao, Sipalay City in Negros Occidental, on Tuesday morning, October 18.
Dionilo Bogtae, Sipalay City Rescue Unit head, said the child’s father left the boy to attend to his other child who was crying.
He did not notice that the boy was playing near the water container.
It is possible that the child stepped into the bucket full of water, he said.
The child was already dead when he was brought to the hospital.*