A police officer said that a boy and his sister drowned in a pit filled with water in Balrampur district of Chhattisgarh on Friday.

Raghunathnagar police station official said that this incident took place in Kesari village in the morning.

He said, "Karthik Jaiswal (6) and his sister Deepa (5) fell into a pit while playing near their maternal grandparents' house. The pit was created as part of the construction of a house nearby. The incident is being investigated. It's going on." ,