In a tragic incident, two kids of a family met their watery grave while taking bath in Arpa River under Torva police station limits. Bodies of the both the kids have been fished out, police informed on Monday.
According to police sources, children of Umesh Rajak, who is a resident of Torva went missing on Sunday evening following which Rajak lodged a complaint with Torva Police.
“After getting the complaint, a case of missing person was lodged and search for kids was launched,” Station House Officer (SHO) Torva, Parivesh Tiwari informed.
During searching, some locals told police that the two kids were spotted playing near the river. However, due to darkness police could not carry out search operation in the night hours, SHO Tiwari said.
On Monday morning, body of a kid Ritesh (7) was found on the river bank. later on, police divers fished out the body of another child Rohit (5), the SHO added.
“Their bodies have been sent for post-mortem and we are waiting for reports, however, no external injury marks were spotted on the bodies,” he added. A case has been registered in this connection and police is investigating it.