Three girls drown in a river

BHAGALPUR: Three

girls

, including two

siblings

, got drowned on Tuesday in a river at

Nagwa village

in

Kahalgaon

police station area of Bhagalpur district, a police officer said.

The girls got drowned in Kowa river while immersing some articles in the water as part of a religious ritual, the Deputy Superintendent of Police Ramanand Kumar Kaushal said.

The bodies of the girls -- Rani Kumari (19) and the sisters Kanchan Kumari (16) and Suman Kumari (14) - were fished out and handed over to their families after post-mortem, he said.