3 kids drown, 2 missing during idol immersion in MP

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Press Trust of India Datia (MP)
Last Updated : Oct 13 2013 | 2:30 PM IST
Three children drowned in a river today near the district's Ruhera village when they went there for immersion of idols of goddess Gaur-Parvati, police said.
Two more children who had gone for idol immersion were untraceable, they said.
The village kids went to the Sindh river to immerse the idol and in the process were swept away, police said.
A total of seven children were swept away in the river and of them two were saved.
The bodies of three girls, two aged about 12 years and one around 10 years old, have been fished out and efforts are on to trace the remaining two, police said.
Efforts are on to identify the kids drowned in the mishap, they added.

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First Published: Oct 13 2013 | 2:30 PM IST

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