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India News | Three Minors Drown in Koel River in Jharkhand's Lohardaga

Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Three teenaged students drowned on Monday in the Koel river in Lohardaga district, police said.

India News | Three Minors Drown in Koel River in Jharkhand's Lohardaga

Lohardaga (Jharkhand), Oct 28 (PTI) Three teenaged students drowned on Monday in the Koel river in Lohardaga district, police said.

Local divers have been engaged to locate their bodies, which are yet to be recovered, a police officer said.

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Four students of Class-11 had gone to take a bath in the river, when three of them slipped and drowned, he said.

The district officials have also sought help of the NDRF to look for the bodies, he said.

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The deceased have been identified as Neelkanth Nilambar Mahli (17), Navneet Bhagat (16) and Ayush Kumar (16).

(The above story is verified and authored by Press Trust of India (PTI) staff. PTI, India’s premier news agency, employs more than 400 journalists and 500 stringers to cover almost every district and small town in India.. The views appearing in the above post do not reflect the opinions of LatestLY)