Jaisalmer, Jul 9 (PTI) Four siblings drowned in a rainwater-filled pit in Rajasthan's Jaisalmer district on Wednesday, police said.

The incident occurred in Nai Mangolai village under Pokaran sub-division, they said.

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The children were playing when they accidentally fell into a pit that was filled with rainwater. The pit had been dug earlier for soil extraction.

Ahmad (12), Rizwan (10), Mohammad (3), and Shehnaz (8), all children of Hajoor Khan, drowned after falling in the pit, they said.

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When the children did not return home till late, family members and villagers started looking for them and discovered that they had fallen into the pit, the police said.

Villagers immediately pulled them out and rushed them to the government hospital in Pokaran, where doctors declared them dead, they said.

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