Three children drowned in a pond formed by sewage behind a housing society at Banthla in Loni here, police said Friday.
The children, identified as Abhishek (9), Altamash (8) and Akram (11) of Ambedkar colony, had gone missing since Thursday night and their bodies were recovered on Friday, they said.
While the family members found the bodies of two of the boys floating, the body of third child was fished out by a team of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF).
The pond was located behind Bharat group housing society.
Upon getting information about the incident, a police team reached the spot and summoned an NDRF team to rescue the third child. The child was fished out after a marathon exercise, Superintendent of Police (Rural) Neeraj Kumar Jadaun said. The Loni police has received a complaint in which family members of the deceased children have alleged that due the negligence of the builder concerned, the pond came into existence as the society’s sewer and waste water had accumulated in it, the SP said.