Uttar Pradesh news: Five children drowned while taking a bath in a water-filled pit in the Shahabad area of Rampur today (July 19), police said. Seven children, residents of Gadamar Moti Shahar village, had taken their goats for grazing.
Four of them entered a pit to take a bath, slipped into the deep waters and started drowning. Akhil (12) jumped into the pit to save them but he also drowned, said Shahabad Sub-Divisional Magistrate Sunil Kumar.
Besides Akhil, he said, those who drowned were identified as Chanchal, Sana, Alina and Gulfshan- all aged around 10. The bodies were fished out of the pit by the locals and have been sent for post-mortem examination, police said.
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