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Two Minor Sisters Drown in Well in Madhya Pradeshs Khargone District
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News18•08-10-2026, 12:30
Two Minor Sisters Drown in Well in Madhya Pradeshs Khargone District
- •Two minor sisters, Saloni and Annapurna, tragically drowned in a well located near their home in Bhuri Bedi village.
- •The incident occurred on Wednesday evening while their father was at work and their mother was away at a hospital.
- •Family members and villagers launched a search after finding the children missing, discovering their clothes near the well.
- •Villagers retrieved the bodies on Thursday morning and rushed them to the community health centre in Maheshwar, where doctors declared them dead.
- •Police handed over the bodies to the family after conducting a postmortem, and an investigation into the incident is currently underway.
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Two minor sisters, Saloni (7) and Annapurna (3), drowned in a well located in a field about 100 metres from their house in Bhuri Bedi village. Their father was out for work and their mother had gone to a hospital at the time of the incident.
After their mother returned and discovered the children missing, family members and villagers launched a search and found the girls’ clothes near the well. Villagers subsequently retrieved their bodies on Thursday morning.
The sisters were taken to the community health centre in Maheshwar, where doctors declared them dead. The bodies were later handed over to the family following a postmortem, and police stated that a probe into the matter is underway.
