In a heart-wrenching incident in Agra, four children drowned in a pit located near Yamuna Expressway on Sunday morning.

According to information, four children, bathing in the water filled pit near Yamuna Expressway roundabout drowned. To save these children, six other people, including a woman jumped into the water but they also started drowning.  On getting information of the incident, the villagers and police pulled out everyone from the water but by then four children died. The other people were sent to hospital for treatment.

Seven families of labourers from Kanpur and Auraiya are living in the area for the past few days by putting up tents at Khandauli Yamuna Expressway interchange. They go to nearby villages and sell goods. On Sunday morning, three children, Hina, Khushi and Chandni, jumped into a water filled pit nearby to take bath and soon all three started drowning.

On hearing their screams, the women of the family Nagina, Anuradha, Ragini, Prachi, Sunny and Riya jumped into the pit to save them. However, they also started drowning. On getting information, the police reached the spot and pulled out all of them. However, by then Hina, Khushi, Chandni and Riya had died.

In another incident in Rajapur village under Madiyahun police station of Jaunpur district, a man and his grandson were electrocuted to death on Sunday morning after coming in contact with the current in a pumping set room.

Shesh Narayan Dubey alias Ganga Prasad Dubey (65) had installed his own tube well 500 metres away from the house. On Sunday, he was working in the field near his tube well. Meanwhile, his grandson Manish Dubey (15) reached there and went to keep some stuff in the pumping set room. There, he came in contact with the current flowing in the safety net inside the room. After some time, when he did not return, Ganga Prasad went inside the room to see Manish and found him lying on the safety net. As soon as he tried to lift Manish, he also came in contact with the current and was electrocuted.

Meanwhile, in Gorakhpur district, a woman ended her life after learning on Sunday morning that her husband committed suicide on Saturday evening. The Cantonment police said that at around 8 am on Sunday, a woman committed suicide by jumping from the roof. The deceased was identified as Sanchita Sharan (28). Her husband Harish Bagesh had gone to Sarnath on July 6 and he committed suicide there.