Five girls, including a newly married woman, drowned while taking a selfie in the Son river at 5 pm on Saturday evening at Bahiyara Patharwa Ghat in Chandi police station area of Bhojpur district. Local people said that while taking a selfie, a girl slipped and went into deep water. After this, while trying to catch each other, all five girls drowned. They were being searched till late night. After this incident there was an outcry on the ghat. In this accident, two people from two families and one girl from one family are reported to have drowned. As soon as information about the incident was received, local divers jumped into the river, but they were not successful.
Everyone had come to Jiutiya with family to take bath.
On Saturday, around 3 pm, everyone had come to Patharwa Ghat in Bahiyara from their house in Chandi. Meanwhile, everyone went down to take bath in Son river. Meanwhile, suddenly everyone went into deep water and started drowning. Eyewitnesses told that as soon as they started drowning, they started trying to pull each other up, but one after the other they all went into the deep water and drowned due to the strong current of the river.
Causes of illegal mining and drowning
The women who had come to take a bath at Jiutiya in the Son river, crying, told that at the place where we were taking bath, sand had already been dug with a machine under the water in the river, due to which the feet were sinking in the river. This was the reason that the devotees who came from other villages and the accompanying girls and women did not get a glimpse of it while taking bath. Meanwhile, the five girls started drowning one by one in the deep water and in order to save each other, they went into the deep water and drowned.
Despite the efforts of local divers, no success was achieved
As soon as the five girls drowned in the deep water of the river, there was a scream on the ghat. Hearing the screams of the devotees who had come to take bath in Jiutiya, the local people and divers ran towards the ghat and jumped into the river. However, the population of Bahiyara village is at a great distance from the ghat. By the time the local people and divers reached it was too late. The divers searched extensively from five in the evening till darkness, but they did not succeed. After darkness fell, the divers got tired and stopped the search.
Those who drowned were identified
Among those who drowned, Chittaranjan Verma, resident of Chandi police station area, has two daughters, 16-year-old Chandravati Kumari and 15-year-old Suman Kumari. Along with this, Anita Kumari, 20-year-old married daughter of Dadan Rai, resident of Kunjantola Chandi, and Nisha Kumari, 18-year-old daughter of brother-in-law and Dashrath Yadav, resident of Karwan Milki, Udwantnagar, also drowned. Anjali Kumari, the 19-year-old daughter of Devendra Verma of Lava Silver, is also among those who drowned. Of these, Anita Kumari, daughter of Dadan Rai, was married last year to Rishabh Kumar, son of Prabhunath Singh, resident of Narayanpur, Koilwar. She had come to her maternal home in Kunjantola. Anita and Nisha are cousins. Chandravati and Suman, the two daughters of Chandi resident Chittaranjan Verma of Chandi police station and Anjali, daughter of Devendra Verma, are cousins.
Screaming noise at family’s house
There was an outcry as soon as the news of the drowning of five girls from the same village was received. As soon as the family members got information about this, there was an outcry. As soon as the information was received, everyone ran towards Son Nad Ghat located at Bahiyara. Even at the ghat, the atmosphere became sad due to the screams of women. The entire village looked sad when five girls from three families of the same village suddenly drowned in the river. Everyone’s face was sad because of this sorrow.
The search will begin again on Sunday morning
Meanwhile, Chandi police station chief Saurabh Kumar, who reached the ghat with the team on receiving information about the incident, said that as soon as the information was received, he reached the spot and along with the team, rescue work was carried out with the help of local divers. Despite the tireless efforts of local divers, no body has been found. Senior officials have been informed. Those who drowned will be searched on Sunday morning with the help of SDRF and local divers.