Three boys drowned in pond in Azamgarh

Varanasi: Three minor boys were drowned in a pond at Hariharpur village under the limits of Kandhrapur police station in Azamgarh district on Monday.
The villagers fished out their bodies after which Kandhrapur cops sent them for postmortem examination.
According to Hariharpur natives, Lalit Yadav (14) of Bhorra village who dwelt in Gujarat with his parents, had come to the place of his maternal grandfather Faujdar Yadav for past few days.On Monday morning, Lalit along with his relatives including Himanshu Yadav (12) and Harsh Yadav (11) reached a pond of the village for bathing.
While bathing, they entered deep water. When one of the boys started drowning, the others made efforts to save him. Bu, in this bid they all drowned. On seeing them in trouble, a boy sitting near the pond raised alarm after which villagers swung into action. They took out the boys from water and rushed them to a local hospital, where doctors declared them brought dead.