Three kids drown in lake in MP

Three siblings, aged between six to 10, drowned in a lake in Madhya Pradesh's Hoshangabad district, police said.

Local resident Chandan Thakur complained on Monday evening that his three children - two daughters and a son - had not returned home and a search was undertaken, Sohagpur police station's in-charge Rajendra Barman told IANS.

After clothes of the three children were found near a lake in Kamthi village forest area, it was searched by villagers and the bodies found underwater, he said, adding it is suspected that the children might have drowned while bathing.

--IANS

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