Three minor boys met watery grave while taking bath in the Koel river at Jhirpani near here on Wednesday afternoon. After some locals spotted three bodies floating in the river, they informed the local police.
With the help of Fire Service personnel and locals, police fished out the bodies. Identities of the deceased could not be established till the filing of this report.
As slippers were found at Bhata Basti Ghat, the police suspected that deceased could be from nearby slum. The bodies were sent for postmortem and investigation into the matter was on, informed a police official. In a similar incident in December 2020, three students had drowned in the Koel while taking bath during a picnic.