Gonda: Five children died after they drowned in a pond in Mishaurilia under Khodare police circle in Uttar Pradesh's Gonda district.


Six children had waded into a pond for a bath and slipped into deep waters on Thursday morning.


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The local people, seeing them cry for help, rushed in to save them but could rescue only one child who has not been admitted into a medical facility in a critical condition.


The bodies of the five children were taken out from the pond. All the children are cousins and belong to one family.


A woman and her mother in the Gonda district of Uttar Pradesh died by suicide after a lewd video went public on social video. The police said that both were upset by the obscene video shared publically and they killed themselves. According to reports the woman was being harassed by her former lover even after she got married which forced her to take such drastic steps and end her life.


The bodies of the 40-year-old mother, and her 22-year-old daughter were found hanging from a tree outside their house in Nagrasen village under Tarabganj police station on Wednesday.