Overview

• Twelve-year-old Hari Yadav, seven-year-old Bhanu Pratap Yadav and ten-year-old Sunita Yadav began bathing in the Ghuwau pond in Utavali village when one child got trapped and the others drowned attempting a rescue
• A local goat rearer alerted villagers who pulled the siblings from the water and rushed them to the Bijawar health centre where doctors declared them dead on arrival
• Pipat police lodged a formal case and Sub Divisional Officer Ajay Kumar Rithoriya has led investigators in collecting witness statements
• District officials are evaluating plans for warning signage and community­awareness campaigns to prevent drownings at unmonitored rural water bodies
• The incident marks the latest in a surge of monsoon-season drownings across rural India that has claimed dozens of young lives since March