4 drown in Narmada

Sehore (MP), Mar 7 : Four youngsters met a watery grave at Post Office Ghat after six from Budhni went to bathe in the Narmada, police said on Monday. The corpses were fished out by Home Guard divers during a two-and-a-half-hour-long mission following Sunday’s incident. The victims – whose kin are factory employees – were pronounced dead at the Narmadapuram District Hospital. They were identified as Pravi Singh, Vinay Bairagi, Aayran Thakur (all 18) and Praveen Rajput (19). Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan expressed grief. XC-AC