Shimla, May 18 (PTI) A septuagenarian man and his two grandsons died after drowning in a canal while washing clothes in Himachal Pradesh's Kangra district on Sunday, police said.

The incident occurred when 70-year-old Prakash Chand along with his grandsons -- six-year-old Taru and eight-year-old Arush -- had gone to the canal to wash clothes and the two children started drowning after entering the water, they said,

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Police said Prakash jumped into the water to save them but began drowning himself.

Villagers informed the police, who reached the spot and launched a search operation. The three bodies were found after sometime and sent for post-mortem at a local hospital, they added.

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