A two-year-old girl accidentally drowned in stagnant rainwater collected in an open plot near her residence in Chennai, marking the third death in two days as Tamil Nadu reels under an intense Northeast Monsoon.

The deceased girl was identified as Pranikashree, who was playing outside her home on Wednesday evening when she apparently slipped and fell into a waterlogged plot behind her residence, reported NDTV. Police believe the girl got entangled in bushes and was unable to free herself.

Her parents, Sandeep Kumar and Priyadarshini, realised that their daughter was missing at around 6:30 pm, after which they searched the neighbourhood and spotted her hand in the rainwater-filled plot. She was rushed to a hospital immediately, where she was declared dead.

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