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A four-year-old girl died when she fell into a sewerage manhole at a government low-cost housing project.
Yossita Boonngam was on her way home after buying sweets in Samut Sakhon province, Thailand, yesterday evening when tragedy struck.
CCTV captured the horrifying moment she walked towards the hole - covered only by a cracked lid resting on two canes - and plunged to her death.
The girl's father Ratchanon Boonngam, 42, said the girl had gone with her brother to buy treats from a nearby shop.
The brother came out of the shop and found his sister missing so he rushed home to inform his parents.
'I don't know what to say about this', he said.
'There are no words. Nobody wants to lose a daughter.
'There is no substitute for this loss. All I can ask is that my daughter is the last to die in this kind of incident.
'Please learn from the past. Why leave the cover without rushing to repair it? My daughter would still be alive.'
Yossita's parents went to the shop and checked nearby CCTV and saw Yosita had fallen into the manhole.
Rescuers arrived and pulled Yossita from the water but she had already drowned after nobody heard her cries for help.
Heartbroken mother Sumamas Chan, 34, fainted and broke out in tears after rescuers found her daughter while neighbours tried to comfort her.
Police colonel Wichian Prathumrat said that officers were investigating the tragedy with the local housing authority.
He said they would work out 'suitable compensation and damages' and repair the drain cover 'straight away'.
Officers had also ordered nearby streets and homes to checked for broken drain covers, he said.