Six people, including three brothers, drowned in separate incidents in Uttar Pradesh’s Kasganj and Mathura districts on Saturday and Sunday, police said. Three brothers and their cousin from Sikandrarau town of Hathras district went missing while bathing in Hazara canal on Saturday.
The bodies of three brothers identified as Jai Prakash, 27, Ajay, 24, and Harendra, 22, were traced on Sunday while their cousin Sumit was saved. The Kasganj DM and the SP also reached the spot to supervise the search operation.
In another incident, a boy Bheem, 15, from Agra went to Goverdhan temple in Mathura on Saturday. On Sunday morning, he went down into Mansi Ganga to bathe and drowned despite rescue efforts, confirmed SP (rural) Suresh Chandra Rawat.
Two cousins Prince, 15, and Manish, 14, from Agra also drowned in Mansi Ganga at the Govardhan pilgrimage site on Saturday, confirmed AK Singh, CO Govardhan.