# Six dead, five children, in three UP drowning incidents 2026-08-16T22:23:06+00:00 | India | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet Six people, including five minors, drowned in three separate bathing incidents in Uttar Pradesh's Deoria, Maharajganj and Jhansi districts on Sunday, police said. In Deoria, two boys died after drowning in a pit in Balesar Mathia village. Villagers pulled them out but they could not be saved, and the families refused a post-mortem. In Maharajganj, a youth and a teenager drowned in the Rohin River near Rohin Barrage. Police and divers recovered both bodies. In Jhansi, two minor girls, aged nine and eight, drowned in a pond in Kanja Chitawan village while grazing goats. They were declared dead at a hospital. Police in all three districts have carried out legal formalities and are investigating the incidents. ## Coverage - indiatoday.in This story was synthesised by AI from the source linked above. Tags: Deoria, Jhansi, Maharajganj, Uttar Pradesh Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/six-dead-five-children-in-three-up-drowning-incidents/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/six-dead-five-children-in-three-up-drowning-incidents/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes. How this brief was made: an AI model read the report linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/