Overview
- Local officials said a 42-year-old man and his daughters, ages 10 and 7, drowned after entering the Beze dam near Anjneri Shivar in Nashik while bathing.
- The victims were identified by authorities as Suresh Namdev Bhor and his daughters Jyoti and Harshada, residents of Waghere village in Igatpuri taluka.
- Officials attributed the deaths to misjudging the water depth, and local residents first alerted rescue agencies before personnel recovered the bodies.
- In a separate Patna incident, three girls drowned in a village pond when two who tried to help a struggling friend also got into trouble; two died on the spot and a third later in hospital.
- Authorities have sent the recovered bodies for post-mortem and opened routine inquiries, raising calls for better public awareness and safety measures at informal bathing spots.