Three girls drowned in a dam near Kailumaran village in Giridih district on Friday morning. The deceased were identified as a 16-year-old Kajal Kumari, daughter of Tribhuvan Yadav, a resident of Gadikala village,while 18-year-old Renu Kumari daughter of Kishore Yadav, and 15-year-old Munita Kumari, daughter of Laxman Swarnakar from Gadikala village.
According to the information, all three girls on Friday had gone to the dam to bring sand for Karma Puja. When they reached the dam first they decided to take a bath in the dam, located at Kailumaran village under the Deori police station area.
During the course of bathing,all three girls got trapped in deep water due to slipping of their feet. When other friends saw all three drowning, they tried to save them but they did not
succeed and all three drowned in deep water.
Then other friends shouted for the incident, while the people of the village working in the fields around the dam reached the dam and jumped into the dam and started looking for all three of them.
After much effort, the bodies of the three girls were pulled out from the dam. The villagers brought the dead bodies of all three to the village.
As soon as the bodies of the girls reached the village, mournful silence spread throughout the village and the atmosphere of the village became gloomy due to the screams and lamentation of the family members.
People who witnessed the incident alerted Deori police, who rushed to the spot with force.
After an hour of struggle, they managed to fish out the bodies. They were sent to the government hospital in Giridih town for post-mortem.
Meanwhile, local villagers reached the village and consoled the parents and relatives of the deceased.