Children drown in pit filled with rainwater in Gujarat

The children, Rahul (10), Kiran (5) and their cousin Rhea (5), jumped into the pit while playing and drowned, an official at Kalavad police station said.

Jamnagar: Two siblings and their cousin, all minors, drowned in a pit filled with rainwater in Gujarat's Jamnagar district, police said on Sunday.

The incident took place on Saturday in Kalmeghda village where the parents of the children worked as farm labourers, according to police.

The children, Rahul (10), Kiran (5) and their cousin Rhea (5), jumped into the pit while playing and drowned, an official at Kalavad police station said.

The bodies were later recovered by locals and sent for postmortem.

A case of accidental death has been registered, he added. PTI