India, Oct. 25 -- A six-year-old girl drowned after allegedly slipping into a waterlogged vacant plot near her home in Rohini, Delhi, on Thursday evening. Police said the child had left her house to play with friends but went missing. Her body was later found in the flooded plot around midnight.

The incident occurred in the Rama Vihar area, where two to three vacant plots have remained inundated for months. Senior police officers said these uneven pools were three to five feet deep. Authorities are looking for the property owners who allowed the plots to remain in such hazardous conditions.

The deceased was identified as Priyanshi Kumar, a resident of Rama Vihar and a class 1 student of a government school nearby. According to police, P...