3 youths drown in canal, two rescued in Lalitpur

Jhansi: Wedding celebrations turned to tragedy in Talbehat on Thursday when three people drowned and two were rescued after five members were swept away in a Rajghat Dam canal while trying to save one another.The incident occurred near Harshpur village, where a marriage party from MP’s Chanderi had arrived Wednesday. A group of men was walking along the canal when one entered the water to bathe and slipped. Others jumped in one by one to rescue him, leaving all five swept away.As the men drowned, others in the group raised an alwarm. Villagers pulled two men out of the canal. Police and divers joined the rescue and recovered the remaining three. All five were rushed to a CHC, where doctors declared three dead. Talbehat circle officer Ashish Mishra said the deceased were identified as Dharmendra Vishwakarma 27, Mithun Vishwakarma 32, both from Chanderi and Dhiraj, 24, from Barr area of Lalitpur.One of the injured, Jagdish, 38, from Harshpur village, is said to be critical.“We have sent the bodies for post-mortem and the injured are under treatment. It appears the deceased jumped into the canal and hit concrete or some hard object on the bed,” Mishra said.The incident triggered chaos at the wedding venue and left the entire village in shock.