“At least seven girls drowned while bathing in waterbodies in Jharkhand in separate incidents,” police said on September 19.
Four girls drowned while bathing in a pond in Pachamba police station area in Giridih district on Tuesday morning, a senior police officer said, adding that one girl accompanying them was rescued.
"Five girls, all aged under 15 years, had gone to the pond to bathe before performing a ritual of Karma Puja. However, they ventured into deep waters and four of them drowned, while one was rescued," Giridih Superintendent of Police Deepak Kumar Sharma told PTI.
