Three persons drowned in two separate incidents in the State on Sunday.Two sisters drowned in the river Brahmani at the bathing ghat at Rengali bazaar near Pallahara in Angul district in the afternoon.
They had gone to take bath in the river when the tragedy took place. In the other incident, a fisherman drowned and another went missing in the sea near Gopalpur in Ganjam district in early morning while they had gone for fishing, police said.
Seven fishermen had gone to the high seas for fishing by two boats which capsized after being hit by a powerful tidal wave. While five of them managed to swim ashore, the body of one was fished out while another was still missing.