Boy drowns in water tank at home

An eight-year-old Saudi boy died after drowning in a large water tank at his family’s farm in the Gulf Kingdom, a newspaper said on Saturday.

His father, who was searching for the boy after missing him for an hour, found him in the tank and quickly plucked him out.

“But the boy has already died…his father rushed him to the hospital but doctors told him he was dead,” Sabq daily said in a report from the western town of Kharma.