Patna: Three siblings drowned while taking a bath in a river at Balubari village under Dighalbank police station area in Kishanganj district on Saturday. The deceased children were identified as Mahmud Hasan (11), Hussain Ahmed (9), and Mohd Hassan (6), sons of Mohd Anjar Alam, a resident of Dargah Basti in Dahibhat panchayat. According to police, the children went for a bath in the river around 2pm, approximately three hours before the wedding procession of their maternal uncle. They ventured into the deep water and began drowning. Despite rescue attempts by local residents, the children could not be saved. Mohammad Nayyar Alam, children’s grandfather, said that the children came to attend their uncle’s wedding on Friday evening. While everyone was occupied with wedding preparations on Saturday, the children reached the river to play and bathe. The wedding procession was to leave in the evening, when the news of their drowning came. Dighalbank SHO, Ravi Shankar Kumar, and zonal officer Garima Geetika, who reached the village to inquire about the incident, said that the relatives of deceased children went to their native village with the bodies of boys. “The police tried to persuade them for postmortem, but they refused. They have started the process of burying the bodies as per their religious rituals,” Kumar said. Patna: Three siblings drowned while taking a bath in a river at Balubari village under Dighalbank police station area in Kishanganj district on Saturday. The deceased children were identified as Mahmud Hasan (11), Hussain Ahmed (9), and Mohd Hassan (6), sons of Mohd Anjar Alam, a resident of Dargah Basti in Dahibhat panchayat. According to police, the children went for a bath around 2pm, approximately three hours before the wedding procession of their maternal uncle. They ventured into the deep water and began drowning. Despite rescue attempts by local residents, the children could not be saved. Mohammad Nayyar Alam, children’s grandfather, said that the children came to attend their uncle’s wedding on Friday evening. While everyone was occupied with wedding preparations on Saturday, the children reached the river to play and bathe. The wedding procession was to leave in the evening, when the news of their drowning came. Dighalbank SHO, Ravi Shankar Kumar, and zonal officer Garima Geetika, who reached the village to inquire about the incident, said that the relatives of deceased children went to their native village with the bodies of boys. “The police tried to persuade them for postmortem, but they refused. They have started the process of burying the bodies as per their religious rituals,” Kumar said.
