Chandauli (UP), February 17 Two boys, aged seven and nine, drowned after they fell into a water-filled pit in a field near the Naugadh police station limits here on Tuesday, police said.
Circle Officer, Naugadh, Nemendra Rawat said the deceased boys – Harsh Keshari (7) and Ankur Yadav (9), residents of Golabad village – had left home around 2 pm, saying they were going to the fields. Their sisters were accompanying them.
The officer said that farmers in the Naugadh area often dig pits up to 10 to 12 feet deep in their fields to store water for irrigation. The boys reached one such pit and bent down to drink water from it, but slipped and fell in, and subsequently drowned.
Upon receiving information, family members rushed to the spot, pulled the children out, and took them to a local community health centre. Doctors attempted to revive the boys with CPR, but they could not be saved, Rawat said, adding that the bodies have been sent for postmortem examination.