2 minors drown while taking bath in river after Chhath Puja ritual preparations in J’khand

“Three teenagers had come to the ghat, and after making the preparations for the ritual, decided to take a bath in the river. While locals managed to rescue one of them, the two others drowned,” River Police Station Officer-in-Charge, Luv Kumar, told PTI.

Police resumed the search and rescue operation on Saturday morning with the help of local divers, as it had to be called off on Friday due to darkness, he said.

“We had requested a National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) unit from Deoghar for the rescue work on Friday night, but on Saturday morning around 10.30 am, the local divers managed to recover both the bodies,” Kumar said.

The bodies were sent for post-mortem at Sahibganj Sadar Hospital.

The four-day Chhath festival will commence on Saturday.