2 days ago
Five, including two children, drown in state
Bhopal/Jabalpur: Five people, among them two children, have drowned in separate incidents in Balaghat and Sidhi districts.
In Balaghat's Rampayli area, three relatives were swept away while bathing in the Wainganga river at Beni village on Tuesday evening.
The victims, Mohit Burde, 21, his cousin Akhil Burde, 17, and Rakesh Nandarawar, 32, had gone to the river with Akhil's father Nandan Burde while visiting for Raksha Bandhan and the Bhujali festival.
"A total of five people went there to bathe in the Wainganga river, and of those, three drowned. All the bodies were recovered on Wednesday and sent for autopsy," Waraseoni SDOP Abhishek Chowdhary told TOI. Sources said Mohit was pursuing a BCA degree and Akhil was a college student.
In another incident at Sidhi district's Jamodi Kalan village, two cousins, Surya Prakash, 7, and Surya, 9, drowned in a rainwater-filled pit on Tuesday evening. Sources said the boys entered the pit to bathe, unaware of its depth.
When they did not return, locals found their clothes on the river bank and alerted police. The bodies were recovered shortly after, added the sources.
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