India News | MP: Four Girls Drown in Pond in Damoh District

Damoh (MP), Sep 8 (PTI) Four girls, aged between 9 and 13, drowned in a pond on Sunday evening in the Damoh district in Madhya Pradesh's Bundelkhand region, an official said.

According to Nohta police station in-charge Arvind Singh Lodhi, the girls had accompanied their parents to a religious function at a temple near Doomar village, about 35 km from the district headquarters.

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Around 6 pm, three of the girls, identified as Maya Lodhi (9), Rajeshwari Lodhi (12) and Princy Singh (12), entered a nearby pond but started sinking.

Ragini Lodhi (13) jumped into the water body to save them, but all four girls drowned, the official said.

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The bodies have been retrieved and autopsies will conducted on them on Monday morning, the official said, adding that a probe into the drowning is underway.

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