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Four Dead, One Hospitalized After Separate Drownings in Maharashtra and Rajasthan

Police cite accidental drownings now under local inquiry.

Overview

  • Three unrelated incidents across Thane, Bhandara, and Hanumangarh this week left four people dead and one person in the hospital, according to police accounts reported by PTI.
  • In Thane’s Mogarpada area, a 10-year-old boy drowned while swimming with friends in a lake, and responders later recovered his body and registered an accidental death case.
  • In Bhandara district’s Rongha village, two boys aged six and seven went missing while playing near a pond, and their bodies were found the next morning and taken to a hospital.
  • Gobarwahi police opened a probe in the Bhandara case, while teams in Thane said police and the fire brigade led the search and recovery at the lake.
  • In Hanumangarh, Rajasthan, a man slipped into the Sadul Branch canal during a ritual immersion of puja items, two friends jumped in to help, two died, and one survivor was hospitalized in stable condition after a disaster team pulled them out.