Five girls drown in pond in Madhubani

According to police officials, the girls, following their return from school, went to take buffaloes in a nearby field when they slipped into deep water in a big pond.

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. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

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.

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