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.
--IANS
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