Two minor girls in
Odisha's Jajpur district today drowned during celebration of the auspicious Kartika Purnima, police said.
The incident took place this morning at Sakuntalapur village while they were trying to collect tiny paper boats which are set afloat in the river on the occasion of Kartika Purnima, they said.
The deceased have been identified as Barsha Samal (5) and Purnima Samal (4) who drowned in Sana Genguti river.
"We have seized the bodies and conducted postmortem on them," said Uma Kanta Swain, inspector-in-charge of Barachana police station.
