Three boys drowned in Dhanusha and Mahottari districts. Two boys — one of eight years and another of six years — from the same family died in Dhanusha.
The two children of Shreekishun Kapar from Dhanauji Rural Municipality-5 drowned in a local Makhanaha stream while their parents were planting rice in the nearby field on Friday, according to District Police Office, Dhanusha.
Similarly, a four-year-old boy, Arush Kapar, from Jaleshwar Municipality-5 drowned in a pond, said District Police Office, Mahottari, adding that although the boy was fished out from the pond and rushed to hospital where he was pronounced dead upon.
The bodies of the children are kept at respective district hospitals for the postmortem, police informed.
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