Five siblings drown in pond in Kohat

Last updated on: 22 August,2020 05:46 am

Local residents retrieved the bodies from the pond and shifted them to hospital.

KOHAT (Dunya News) - Five children, including three brother and two sisters, of a family were drowned in a pond in in Gumbat area of Kohat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Friday, Dunya News reported.

Their mother while going to the pond to wash clothes took her children – three boys and two girls -- along with her. The mother was washing the clothes when a child slipped and fell into the pond. On seeing this, the other four siblings jumped into the water to rescue him, but were also drowned in the process.

Local residents reached the spot and retrieved the bodies from the pond and shifted them to hospital.