Overview

• Search teams halted the canal’s water flow early Saturday and deployed local divers and nets to locate the missing family.
• Investigators recovered the bodies around 4 pm, finding the woman and her three children still bound together by a cloth.
• Personal items including the mother’s bangles and the children’s clothes found on the canal bank guided authorities to narrow the search area.
• Police have identified the victims as 30-year-old Reena and her children Himanshu, 9, Anshi, 5, and Prince, 3, of Risaura village.
• Investigators have detained Reena’s husband, Akhilesh, and are questioning him to piece together the sequence of events.