The girls slipped into deep water in a big pond near Navtoli village under Babubarhi block in Madhubani and drowned
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On Wednesday, five girls drowned in Bihar's Madhubani district when they had taken out buffaloes to graze, police said.
The girls slipped into deep water in a big pond near Navtoli village under Babubarhi block in Madhubani and drowned, a district police official said.
According to police officials, the girls, following their return from a government-run middle school, went as usual to take the buffaloes in a nearby field when the accident occurred. The bodies have been recovered and sent for autopsy, police said.
Edited by mid-day online desk, with inputs from IANS
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