Puttur : A one year old child who was playing in front of the house went missing all of a sudden and was eventually found dead in the pond of a nearby plantation at Apinimoole of Panaje village of Puttur taluk on December 24, Thursday.

The deceased child is Sanid, son of Aboobakker Siddique and Asma couple.

The child who was playing in the verandah of the house was later found in the pond of a neighbour named Ram Kumar. Though the child was immediately taken to the hospital, he had breathed his last by then.