In a separate incident, a five-year-old boy died after allegedly drowning in a pond in Maharajganj district, police said on Monday. Banda/Maharajganj , Two brothers drowned while bathing in a river in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda district, while their 16-year-old cousin remains missing.
In Banda, the incident took place around 3 pm on Sunday at Seeman Ghat in Naugawan village in the Kalinjar area, when Rishabh , his younger brother Ansh and their cousin Ayush drowned while bathing in the Bagai river, Circle Officer Saurabh Singh said.
The bodies of Rishabh and Ansh were recovered late Sunday evening with the help of locals and police divers, while a search operation was underway to trace Ayush, he said. Paniyara Station House Officer Kunwar Gaurav Singh said police had not received any written complaint in connection with the incident so far. In the second incident, five-year-old Abhiraj Sahani allegedly drowned in a pond in Baijudehra village in the Paniyara area of Maharajganj district on Sunday evening.
During a search late at night, they spotted his shoe floating in a pond. Villagers subsequently searched the water and found him unconscious. He was taken to a hospital in Paniyara, from where doctors referred him to a medical college.
Abhiraj went missing from his house around 5 pm, according to his family members.
However, he died on the way, his family members said.
