Eight die of drowning in two incidents in Mahesana and Rajkot

Mahesana/Rajkot: Five people of a family today drowned in the main Narmada canal near Kadi in Mahesana district while the bodies of a woman and her two children were fished out of a well in Moviya village in Gondal Taluka of Rajkot today.

Police said that six of a family from Vav area of Banaskantha district of North Gujarat drowned in Narmada canal near Thol road at Kadi. One of them was somehow saved by local divers while five of them drowned. The body of one woman has been fished out by the local divers while the search for other four was on.
Police said that one member of the family somehow slipped in to deep waters of the canal and others drowned while trying to save him.

In another incident in Moviya village under Gondal Taluka of Rajkot district in Saurashtra, the bodies of Bhanuben Dinesh Tota (44), her daughter Rupa (16) and son Jayesh (13) were fished out of a well this morning. The trio was missing since last three days, police said adding that it seems to be an incident of suicide owing to family quarrel.

However the matter was being investigated from other angles also including that of murder.

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