3 people drown in well
A three-year-old girl and two others died on Tuesday after drowning in a well during celebrations of Jitiya Puja in Mumbai's Vile Parle area.
The incident happened when rituals of the Jitiya puja were being performed. Teams of police and fire brigade immediately rushed to the site to engage in rescue operations.
A Fire Brigade official said the incident took place near Dixit Road in Vile Parle (East) around 6.30pm.
Some women were performing a puja sitting on the iron grill on the mouth of a 30-feet deep well, he said. The grill suddenly gave in and the women fell into the well.
While two women were rescued by locals, fire brigade officials rescued a five-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl.
However, two women - Madhvi Pandey (49), Renu Yadav (20) - and a girl named Divya (3) drowned, the official said.
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