3 Drown While Crossing Madhya Pradesh River On Way To Temple, 5 Missing
Two persons drowned and five went missing in Madhya Pradesh's Morena district while crossing the Chambal river on their way to a temple in Rajasthan on Saturday morning, officials said. The rescuers fished out three bodies from the river, but one of them remained unidentified and as per the survivors was not a part of their group of 17. "Two bodies have been identified. Another could not be identified,” Morena district collector Ankit Asthana told PTI in the evening. The incident took place around 7 am when a group of 17 devotees from MP's Shivpuri district, heading for a temple fair in the neighbouring state, was crossing the river on foot thinking that water was shallow, a police officer said. They were swept away by a strong current of water but ten of them swam to safety, said inspector Dharmendra Malviya of Tentra police station in Morena district. Seven of the survivors reached the river bank on the Rajasthan side and three reached the MP side. Two persons from...