3 of family drown in Ganga in Bihar’s Bhagalpur

BHAGALPUR: (Apr 25) Three members of a family, including two siblings, drowned in the Ganga in Bihar’s Bhagalpur district, police said on Saturday.

The incident happened at a ghat in Jhalludas Tola in the Naugachia police station area on Friday, they said.

The family, from Bhatgama in Madhepura district, had come to the ghat in Bhagalpur for a tonsure ceremony. They went to bathe in the river during the ceremony, but three of them slipped and were swept away into deep water within moments, police said.