On Saturday late evening, in the Chadwa Dam of Hazaribagh, a mother along with her two kids drowned in the dam. The drowned persons have been identified as Khusboo, Sarita, Pawan and Manoj Sao, all of Gadokhar village of Katkamsandi block. Pawan and Khusboo are the children of Sarita.
According to the villagers, Sarita along with her kids had gone to the dam for washing clothes. Suddenly, they saw a kid drowning. In order to save that child, the rest three also jumped into the water and got drowned as they were unable to swim.
This incident was informed to the Pelawal police by the Mukhiya of the Gadokhar Panchayat Narayan Sao. Pelawal officer in charge Ramaknat Tiwary, Inspector Krishan Kumar Mahto reached to the spot with divers. After five continuous hours of efforts, the divers fished out the dead bodies.
After that the villagers told the divers not to take the dead bodies from there. The villagers started demanding compensation of Rs2 lakhs and benefit of Indira Awas plan to the family of the deceased persons.
Sadar SDO Rajeev Ranjan and DSP Satish Jha also reached the spot after getting the information of the incident and villagers demand. They assured the villagers that aggrieved families will get appropriate compensation. After that the dead bodies were sent for postmortem.