Five girls drown in Bihar’s Madhubani, bodies recovered

Patna : Five girls drowned in Bihar’s Madhubani district on Wednesday when they had taken out buffaloes to graze, police said.

The girls slipped into deep water in a big pond near Navtoli village under Babubarhi block in Madhubani and drowned, a district police official said.

According to police officials, the girls, following their return from a government-run middle school, went as usual to take the buffaloes in a nearby field when the accident occurred.

The bodies have been recovered and sent for autopsy, police said.

Published on May 9, 2018 at 21:22 IST

IANS