A teenage girl was drowned after she fell into a well in Kampung Jelapang, Bandar Permaisuri in Setiu yesterday afternoon.

In the 4pm incident, the victim Norsyakirah Izati Nazliza, 13, followed her grandfather Mat Daud Dollah, 73, to lay out fishing nets at the back of the house when the water was rising.

Setiu district police chief DSP Ab Rahman Raja Mohamed said the victim, however, was believed to have fallen into a submerged well in the padi field.

“With the help of the villagers, the victim was found not long after that and rushed to the hospital by them,” he said when contacted in Setiu.

He said the body of the Form One student of SMK Chalok had been sent to the Setiu hospital for a post mortem.

- Bernama