Daijiworld Media Network - Kalaburagi (SP)

Kalaburagi, Feb 27: In a heart-rending incident which happened on the evening of Sunday February 26 at Kumasi village of the taluk, four persons belonging to a single family including two girls died due to drowning in a pond.

The unfortunate victims were Mir Mogsar Ali Khan (28), Azizul Rahman (19), Amasta Sabur (13), and Mariam (15).

The family had visited its agricultural field at the border of their village, to spend holiday. During this visit, the two girls, Amasta and Mariam, had visited a pond located in the field. Both of them were heard raising alarms, having slipped and fallen into the pond, a little while later. Mir and Azizul rushed to their help. As they too did not know how to swim, all the four soon asphyxiated to death.

The family members with the help of some locals immediately brought all the four out of the pond and rushed them to hospital. However, all the four had breathed heir last before medical help could be extended. The hospital premises soon reverberated by desperate wails of the family members.

District superintendent of police, Shashikumar, deputy superintendent of police, Vijay Anche, tahsildar, , circle police inspector, Wajid Patel, police sub-inspector, Chandrashekhar Tigadi and others visited the spot. A case was registered in rural police station here.