Two minor boys drowned to death in Oradi dam under Jamua police station areas of Giridih district on Sunday.
The deceased have been identified as Jaykumar Agarwal (11), son of Subhash Agarwal, and Navnit Kumar (12), son of Nakul Sao. Both were said to be the residents of Jamua chowk. While one of the deceased, Jaykumar was a student of class five, another read in class 6 at the nearest government school, a villager said.
According to the villagers, the incident took place at around 11: 15 am when altogether four minor boys had gone to take bath in the Oradi dam, situated about 2-3 kilometres from their homes. “All had entered into the dam in a normal way. But soon after a few minutes, both Jaykumar and Navnit, went towards another bank of the dam and jumped into the deep water, though they failed to come out from there”, a villager told the Pioneer.
Soon after getting information a team of police personnel, along with villagers, visited the site of occurrence and looked into the matter. The police authorities have recovered two bicycles, belonging to the deceased and their clothes from outside the waterbed.
“As soon as we came to know about the incident, we called upon the rescue team and engaged them to fish out the dead bodies. However, these could be taken out from the dam by 2 pm. It took almost 2 hours in fishing out the dead bodies from the reservoir”, said the officer in-charge, Jmua police station. He said that initially the dead bodies were brought to the police station and later handed over to their respective guardians after proper investigation.
On July 17, eight persons, including five minors, had drowned to death after the wooden boat, in which they were moving, capsized in the Panchkhero dam under Markacho police station in Koderma District. The site of occurrence is located near the Giridih – Koderma border. All the deceased were the residents of Khetko village in the Dhanwar police station areas of Giridih district.