After five more children died due to drowning at different places in Jharkhand on Monday, the number of drowning deaths in the state in the last two days increased to 11. Police said that most of these people drowned during Chhath Puja. On Monday, a minor and two men also went missing in the reservoirs.
Police said five children died in Hazaribagh, Garhwa and Simdega districts of the state. Six other people drowned in Simdega and Palamu districts on Sunday. Police said that during Chhath Puja on Sunday evening, two girls, Gungun Kumari (11) and Rupa Tiwari (12), drowned in a pond in Bela village of Keredari police station area of Hazaribagh. The bodies were sent for post-mortem.
According to the police, 13-year-old Rahul Kumar drowned while bathing in the Danro river of Sadar police station area in Garhwa on Monday afternoon. Sadar police station in-charge Sunil Tiwari said that while bathing in the river, Rahul went into deep water and drowned. Local people pulled him out of the water and took him to Sadar Hospital, where doctors declared him dead.
A police official said that a two and a half year old girl drowned in a bucket filled with water on Monday in Mayangsor village of Bano police station area of Simdega district. The girl and her grandmother were at home at the time of the incident.
The grandmother went to another room, but when she returned, she found the girl drowned in a bucket, the officer said. Police said that a minor boy drowned in the Subarnarekha river near Saherbera in Chandil police station area of Seraikela-Kharsawan district after offering Arghya during Chhath Puja on Monday evening.
Chandil police station in-charge Dilshan Birua told PTI that 14-year-old Aryan Yadav went into the dangerous area of the river and started drowning. The officer said, “After this Prateek Kumar Yadav (19) and Sanjay Singh (45) jumped into the river to save him.
“The NDRF team and local divers recovered the body of the boy, while the search for the two missing persons will resume on Tuesday morning.” A 16-year-old boy went missing after jumping into a canal in Palamu on Monday, an official said.
This incident took place near Chaura bridge in Vishnupur village of Hussainabad police station area. Three children drowned in a pond in Simdega on Sunday evening and three others died in a similar manner in Palamu district.