An inconsolable relative of one of the children at Gardi Nagar village near Rajpura on Monday and (inset-from left) deceased Sanjev Kumar, Gurdhian Singh and Nitin Kumar.
PATIALA – Three children of Gardinagar village in Rajpura drowned while bathing in a pond. Though the villagers rushed the trio to a hospital in Banur, doctors there declared them brought dead.
Among the deceased were Sanjeev Kumar (13), Nitin Kumar (10) and Gurdhyan Singh (9).
Shambhu Station House Officer (SHO) Mohinder Singh said five children had gone to the pond near to the village around 10.30 am. “Three of the children were young even as the water was quite deep. The trio started drowning as there was lot of slough. The children got stuck and could not come out,” he said.
The SHO said the other two children ran to the village and called the residents for help. By the time the trio were rescued and taken to hospital, they breathed their last, he said. The villagers informed the police around 11 am. When the police team reached the hospital, the parents refused to get a post-mortem done on the victims’ bodies and cremated them in the evening. A pall of gloom descended on the village as the trio’s parents were inconsolable while the residents were in a state of shock.
