FIVE YOUNG GIRLS MET THEIR WATERY GRAVE, THREE BODIES FOUND, ROAD BLOCKED

Five young girls including a newlywed woman met their watery grave in the river Sone at Bahiyara Pattharawa Ghat under Chandi police station in the evening on October 7, 2023 while taking selfie during Jiyutiya bath in the river Sone.

Oct 8, 2023 - 19:14
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ARA, (RNI) Five young girls including a newlywed woman met their watery grave in the river Sone at Bahiyara Pattharawa Ghat under Chandi police station in the evening on October 7, 2023 while taking selfie during Jiyutiya bath in the river Sone. The deceased were identified as Chandrawati Kumari 16, Suman Kumari 15 daughters of Chitranjan Verma, Anjali Kumari 19 daughter of Devendra Verma of Chandi under the same police station, Anita Kumari 20 daughter of Dadan Rai of Kunjantola under Chandi police station and Nisha Kumari 18 daughter of Dashrath Yadav of Karawa Milki under Udwantnagar police station. Anita Kumari daughter of Dadan Rai was married with Rishabh Kumar of Narayanpur under Koelwar police station last year. She had come to her parents’ house at Kunjantola. Anita Kumari and Nisha Kumari were nieces. Police rushed to the spot and requisitioned a team of SDRF but the divers failed to find out bodies due darkness. On Sunday the SDRF after much effort, fished out three bodies of young girls namely Suman Kumari, Chandrawati Kumari and Nisha Kumari and also trying to find the rest two bodies. Suman Kumari was a nine class student while Chadrawati Kumari had passed the matriculation examination this year and Anjali Kumari was a graduate student.

The irate villagers blocked the Ara-Sakaddi main road near Chandi Bazaar with the bodies of the young girls who were fished out from the river today. They were demanding compensation for the families of the deceased and action against those who were responsible for digging sand from the river.

SHO Chandi police station Sourabh Kumar said that Chandrawati Kumari, Suman Kumari, Anjali Kumari, Anita Kumari, Nisha Kumari along with their family members had gone to the Bahiyara Pattharawa Ghat under Chandi police station in the evening to have a dip in the rive Sone on the occasion of Jiyutiya where all the five young girls started taking selfie. Meanwhile one of them slipped into the river and began to drown. The rest four in their bid to rescue her went into the water and drowned.

Women who had come to have a dip in the river said that the place where they were taking bath had already been dug up with machine. Due to this, there was a pit. The woman who came from other villages had not idea about the pits in the river. The girls drowned while taking selfie. After the incident, there was an outcry on the ghat. Hearing the cry of the devotees, the locals and the divers rushed to the spot but it was too late. The divers searched for them till dark but in vain.

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