India, May 23 -- An eight-year-old boy, identified as Dikshant Harijan, drowned while playing in a pool at a resort in Arnala on Wednesday evening. The police have registered a case of accidental death.

The deceased, son of Venkatesh Harijan, a resident of Santosh Nagar in Goregaon, had gone to the Dreamland Resort in Virar with family and friends for a day trip. After breakfast on Wednesday morning the party went to the resort's pool.

While Harijan was playing in the children's pool, he slipped and water entered his nose and mouth, causing him to drown. His father noticed him only after he had stopped breathing, and immediately pulled him out and rushed him to a private hospital for treatment. However, the boy did not survive.

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