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Two kids drown in Madhubani river
Madhubani: A nine-year-old girl and her seven-year-old brother drowned in Supen river at Navani village under Arariaiya Sangram police station area of Jhanjharpur, on Sunday afternoon.
The deceased, identified as Radhika Kumari and Krishna Yadav, were the children of Roshan Yadav, whose father, Raso Yadav, is a ward kachhari panch of Navani panchayat.
According to sources, the siblings had accompanied their grandfather, Raso Yadav, to the mango orchard. While Raso went to bathe in the Supen river, the children followed him. Despite his attempts to stop them, the siblings ventured into deep water. Raso raised an alarm, and with the help of others, the children were pulled out, but it was too late. The seven-year-old boy was rushed to a private clinic, where doctors declared him dead.
The children's mother is currently at her parental home, and their father, Roshan, is engaged as a worker in Delhi. Both have been informed of the tragedy.
Police sent the bodies for postmortem to Madhubani on Sunday evening.
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