Five including a boy and two women drown and die in a river in Bhavnagar district of Gujarat

Bhavanagar: In a tragic incident, at least five people including 2 woman died of drowning in a river in Sada Ratanpar village of Vallabhipur taluka in Bhavnagar district of Gujarat today.

Police said that 10 people, including women and children – all of whom were farm labourers, were taking bath in local Keri river this afternoon when an around 12 to 13 year old boy among them slipped in to deeper water. Four others including two woman also drowned while trying to rescue one another and the child.

The dead bodies of four of them including the boy were fished out by locals while one of them who was taken out of the water in serious condition died in a local hospital.

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