Three children, aged between 7 and 13, drowned while bathing in a dam in Jharkhand’s Garhwa district on Saturday, a police official said.
The incident took place at Babhanikhand dam, about 210-km from capital Ranchi.
Garhwa sub-divisional police officer (SDPO) Pramod Kumar Kesari said that the children reached the spot after getting informed about the incident.
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“All three bodies have since been fished out from the dam and sent to Sadar hospital for post-mortem,” he said.
He said that the children, were herding goats in the dam area.
"They decided to take a bath in the water body. The dam which is deep had undercurrents which the children could not handle and hence drowned,” he said.
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