CHENNAI, Nov. 1 -- Within hours after the State bade a tearful farewell to Sujith Wilson, the two-year-old boy in Tiruchirappalli district who lost his life after falling into an abandoned borewell near his house on Friday, two more toddlers died in different parts of Tamil Nadu during the last 24 hours in similar circumstances.

Rudran, a three-year-old boy, was drowned in a pit dug up for constructing a rain water harvesting (RWH) structure in a village in Virudhunagar on Wednesday while Pavalavalli, a three-year-old girl, died on late Tuesday when she fell into a septic tank in an under-construction house in Cuddalore district.

In both the cases, the parents/guardians of the children were away visiting relatives in connection with Diwal...