Hyderabad: An 18-month-year old child playing in his third floor home accidentally fell to his death in Rahmathnagar on Sunday. Police said Yateesh Venkati slipped through the grill in the balcony and fell down.

Police Venkati was the younger son of Khammam natives Satyanarayana, a techie who works in Madhapur, and Tripura, a homemaker.

Police said Ms Tripura was at work in the kitchen and Mr Satyanarayana was taking his bath and Venkati along with his brother were playing in the hall. After some time, when she could not see him, Ms Tripura searched all over the flat, and found him lying in a pool of blood on the ground.

“While playing he accidentally slipped through the gap between the grills and fell to the ground floor and suffered a severe head injury. He was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he succumbed,” said Mr K. Sattaiah, sub-inspector, Jubilee Hills.

A case of suspicious death was registered and the body handed over to the family after post-mortem.