Palanpur: Three persons drowned in three separate incidents reported from Patan and Mehsana on Wednesday.
In Kamalpur (dh) village of Satalpur taluka in Patan district, Alka Rawal (32), drowned in Banas river where she had gone to wash clothes.
“Rawal had taken her eight-year-old niece along with her. Her feet slipped into the river and she drowned.
Her niece alerted her family members,” said Bhupat Thakor, Kamalpur (dh) village sarpanch.
The second incident was reported from Pargam village of Radhanpur taluka in Patan district, where Yuvrajsinh Jadeja (22) drowned in a pond.
The last incident occurred at Samitra village of Mehsana taluka, where a 26-year-old unidentified man drowned in a pond. “We are yet to fish out his body,” said A D Gadhvi, taluka development officer.