Koraput: Three tribal girls, including two sisters, drowned in a pond at Kurshi Uparpara village under Umerkote police limits of Nabarangpur district on Thursday. According to police, the incident occurred around 3pm when the children, identified as Bhumika Gond (5), and sisters Sandhya (6) and Sanjita Gond (5), went to the pond to wash clothes. Balsai Gond, father of Bhumika, said the girls accidentally ventured into deep water. The incident came to light when some local boys spotted one of the children floating and alerted villagers. Residents pulled out the child, and noticed clothes of the other two near the pond. They then launched a search and recovered the bodies of the other two girls.Police sent the bodies for post-mortem and launched an investigation.
