Vasco: A five-year-old boy from a naval family based in Dabolim drowned in a swimming pool at a resort in Cavelossim, South Goa, on Saturday evening while attending a get-together organised by naval officers.The boy was playing in the baby swimming pool with his seven-year-old brother and other children when he tried to move to the adjacent adult pool and fell into the water.“As his elder brother and other children played in the baby swimming pool, the boy, in a bid to move into the adjacent adult swimming pool, fell into the water and drowned,” said police inspector Tulshidas Naik.The boy’s parents were at the resort’s restaurant when the incident occurred. He was rushed to a private hospital in Margao, where he was declared dead.Naik said the family, originally from Manipur, resides in the Naval Officers’ Family Residential Area (NOFRA) at Dabolim. The boy’s father is a naval officer, and the family had checked into Holiday Inn Resort to attend the get-together.Police have registered a case of unnatural death. A scene panchanama and an inquest panchanama were conducted, and the body was sent to the South Goa district hospital for further medico-legal formalities.
