Two boys drown in pit filled with rainwater

Two boys were drowned at Burj Puhla falling under the Harike police station here on Thursday evening. The deceased have been identified as Princedeep Singh (9), son of Nishan Singh, and his cousin Prabhjeet Singh, son of Gurpreet Singh, both residents of Burj Puhla village.

SSP Deepak Pareek said on Friday that Gurbhej Singh of the village had allowed Nihangs from Ferozepur to tie their horses at his house. The Nihangs asked these two Mazhabi Sikh children, who were playing in the neighbourhood, to accompany them to a place for bathing their horses.

When they reached near a brick-kiln, they saw a pit, allegedly got dug by the brick-kiln owner, filled with water, but they were not aware of the fact that the pit was 10 feet deep.

Owing to rain, water and sand had collected in the pit turning it marshy. The boys started bathing the horses from the water collected in the pit and themselves began to swim in it and got stuck and eventually drowned in it. The Harike police led by Harpreet Singh Virk reached the spot and took the bodies into their possession. The SSP said the bodies have been kept at the mortuary of the Civil Hospital, Tarn Taran, for a postmortem.