Six persons, including two children and as many women, were killed in separate mishaps in Patiala today. Four persons drowned in the Badi Nadi, a seasonal rivulet, near Daulatpur village where they had gone to catch fish. While three of the bodies have been found, search was on for the fourth.
The deceased have been identified as Nirmala (18), her husband Parbodh (25) and their friend Pardeep (19). The body of Nirmala’s mother Asha alias Godhar (38) is yet to be found.
All of them were migrant labourers and belonged to Uttar Pradesh.
Lakhvir Singh, Station House Officer, Sadar police station, said it took them an hour to recover the bodies.
In another mishap that occurred at Rori Kutan Mohalla in Sanouri, two sisters, three-year-old Gulshatan and five-year-old Bano, died adda in the wee hours today after a wall adjacent to their shanty collapsed due to heavy rain and high-velocity winds.
They were buried under the debris and their bodies were recovered after a four-hour rescue operation. Eight other persons, including four children, were injured.
Sub-Inspector Surinderpal Singh said, “The girls had died by the time they were located under the debris.”
The condition of the injured persons was stated to be stable, an official said.
