Two sisters drowned in Kalisindh river at village Tingajpur while taking part in Sanjha festival, a police official said.
They were identified as Sonam (12) and Monica (9), said police.
The sisters had gone to the river to immerse Sanjha (a popular 15-day-long festival celebrated by unmarried girls by drawing different images using cowdung and other colourful material in Malwa region) when the incident took place, Salsalai police station in-charge R S Sharma said.
They were rescued from the river water and rushed to a hospital where doctors declared them brought dead, said police.
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