Three children drown in rivulet

Three children, two of them brothers, drowned in a rivulet near here today, police said.

Dalut Vishwakarma (4), Krishna Parthe (5) and his younger brother Yuvaraj (3) drowned while taking a bath in the rivulet near village Sillor under Kurai Police Station area this morning, they said.

Their bodies have been fished out and handed over to family members after post-mortem, Kurai Police Station Inspector Shivraj Singh said.