Three membes of a family, including a woman, a 13-year-old girl and another person, drowned in a waterfall close to the backwater of Bhushi Dam in Pune's Lonavala area on Sunday, while two children in the 4-6 age group are missing, the police said. The incident took place at around 1.30 pm when five people visited the place for a picnic and slipped close to the waterfall and fell into the waterbody, the Lonavala police station official said.
"A search and rescue team is at the spot," he added.
"We have recovered the bodies of a 40-year-old woman and a 13-year-old girl. Two 6-year-old girls and a 4-year-old boy are missing in the incident. It seems they are part of a family and slipped into a waterfall some two kilometres away from Bhushi Dam and drowned at the reservoir downstream," Pune Rural Superintendent of Police Pankaj Deshmukh said.
The police said that all five were members of the same family. The rescue operation was halted for the day after the sunset, and will be resumed on Monday, officials said.
(With PTI inputs)
