Gujarat: Four cousin sisters drown in Dahod’s Pata Dungri dam

VADODARA: Four girls from Garbada taluka of Dahod who went for a swim late on Saturday evening in Pata Dungri dam drowned.
The four girls, who were all cousins, had taken their goats for grazing near the catchment area of the dam. Identified as Jyotsna Bhabhor (10), Mittal (11), Neelam (8) and Payal (12), the girls had taken the goats for grazing at around 5 pm, said their parents and when the goats returned but the girls didn’t the parents rushed near Pata Dungri to search for them.
However, they could only recover their clothes from the banks.The parents and other villagers searched for the girls in the water and after a few hours could locate the bodies in the deep waters. Police said that the girls often took the goats for grazing as their school was closed due to the pandemic.
“We suspect that they must have gone in the water for a swim while the goats were grazing but drowned when they ventured in deep waters,” said a police official.
Their post-mortem was conducted at Garbada and a case of accidental death was registered at Garbada police station.