Overview

• Search operations by SDRF and Home Guard teams continue for two teenagers in Madhya Pradesh’s Singri river after Akshat Mehra’s body was recovered.
• An autopsy and forensic probe are underway in Prayagraj district after four tribal children were found in a rainwater-filled pit amid family allegations of facial injuries.
• Police in Shivpuri district have registered a case and are examining suicide, accident and homicide angles following the deaths of a mother and her two young children in a village well.
• At least 17 children and teenagers have drowned since July 7 as monsoon rains fill unmarked drains, wells, ponds and mine pits across Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana.
• Local police, disaster response teams and villagers have led recovery efforts, underlining gaps in rural water safety measures and calls for warning signage and regulated excavation.