Jalaun (UP), Sep 22 (PTI) Two boys drowned while taking bath in a pond in Uttar Pradesh's Jalaun district on Sunday, police said.

Sohail (10), Akram (11), Arif (9) and Aashiq (12), the residents of Churkhi Bal locality in Jalaun town, went to a nearby pond in the afternoon to take a bath, said Circle Officer (Jalaun) Shailendra Kumar Bajpai.

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During this, they went into deep water and started drowning, he added.

Bajpai said that on hearing the screams, a tractor driver Abhi Kumar, who was present nearby, took Aashiq and Arif out of deep water, while Sohail and Akram drowned.

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Their bodies were later taken out of the pond, he said and added that the bodies of the deceased have been sent for post-mortem examination.

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