Five children drown in Madhepura rivulet

MADHEPURA: At least five children, including four girls, drowned in a rivulet near Monoharpur village under Chausa block in Madhepura district on Thursday.
The victims were identified as Naisi (13), Laxmi Kumari (11), Krishna Kumar (12), Lalita (10) and Sunita (10), all residents of Manoharpur village.
Police sources said the children had gone to the bank of the rivulet to collect “kush”, a sacred grass used to perform puja.As the children did not return home even after four hours, their parents started looking for them.
The villagers spotted floating hair of a girl in the rivulet and took help of the local divers who fished out the bodies of the five children from the rivulet.
Chausa circle officer Rakesh Kumar Singh and SHO Rabish Ranjan rushed to the village with a police team after getting the information. Police said the hildren probably drowned while taking bath in the rivulet. The bodied of all the five children were sent for autopsy to a local hospital.