On an early June afternoon in Bajhera village, Uttar Pradesh, three young women — aged seventeen, eighteen, and nineteen — went to the Sharda river and did not return. When one slipped beneath the surface, the other two reached in after her, as people who love one another do, and the river claimed all three. Their story is as old as rivers themselves: the instinct to save another life, meeting the indifferent depth of moving water.
Three teenage girls drown in Sharda river while attempting rescue
Three teenage girls (ages 17-19) from Bajhera village drowned in the Sharda river after one slipped into deep water and two others died attempting rescue.
Their cries carried across the water to nearby villagers
Mark
Why were they at the river that day? Was it a planned gathering, or something more casual?
Mimi
The reports don't say. It sounds like they simply went there—the kind of thing young people do in villages near water. There's no indication of anything unusual about the decision itself.
Mark
When Priyanshi slipped, did the other two know immediately that she was in trouble?
Mimi
They must have. The moment she went in, they reacted. There was no hesitation, no calling for help first. They went in after her. That's the instinct—to save someone you know.
Mark
But they couldn't swim, or the water was too strong?
Mimi
The police said they got stuck in deep water. It's not clear if they couldn't swim or if the depth and current simply overwhelmed them. Either way, three people who went in with the intention of saving one person all drowned.
Mark
The villagers heard them. How far away were they?
Mimi
Close enough to hear the cries. That's all we know. They came quickly enough to recover all three bodies from the water. But by then, it was too late.
Mark
Do these kinds of accidents happen often in that area?
Mimi
The source doesn't say. But it's a reminder that rivers in rural areas can be deceptive—calm on the surface, dangerous underneath. And when someone goes in, the instinct to help can pull others down with them.
Il Polso
- A seventeen-year-old loses her footing on the riverbank and slips into water too deep to stand in — the ordinary moment that becomes catastrophic.
- Her two companions, eighteen and nineteen, move immediately toward her without hesitation, and the same depth that took her traps them both.
- Villagers hear desperate cries across the water and run toward the sound, wading in to pull all three girls from the river.
- Despite the swift response, all three are pronounced dead on arrival at the Bijua community health centre — the rescue came too late.
- Police document the names and ages, arrange post-mortem examinations, and the incident settles into the record as another warning about the hidden dangers of rural riverbanks.
On an early June afternoon in Bajhera village, Uttar Pradesh, three young women — aged seventeen, eighteen, and nineteen — went to the Sharda river and did not return. When one slipped beneath the surface, the other two reached in after her, as people who love one another do, and the river claimed all three. Their story is as old as rivers themselves: the instinct to save another life, meeting the indifferent depth of moving water.
Three teenage girls from Bajhera village in Uttar Pradesh went to the Sharda river one day in early June. It was the kind of outing that must have seemed unremarkable — a familiar river, a familiar landscape. Then Priyanshi, seventeen, lost her footing on the bank and slipped into the water.
Khushbu, eighteen, and Ruby, nineteen, did not hesitate. They went in after her. But the river's depth was deceptive, and both girls found themselves unable to stand, their rescue attempt becoming a drowning of its own.
Nearby villagers heard the cries and ran toward the water. They waded in and managed to pull all three girls out, loading them into a vehicle and rushing them to the Bijua community health centre. When they arrived, all three were pronounced dead.
Station house officer Siyaram Verma oversaw the formal procedures — recording names, ages, and arranging post-mortem examinations. The three girls had been neighbors, living within the same small community under the Bhira police station. They were at an age when a trip to the river is simply a thing you do. The Sharda did not distinguish between the familiar and the foreign. It took all three.
On a day in early June, three teenage girls from Bajhera village went to the Sharda river in Uttar Pradesh. What began as an ordinary outing ended in tragedy when one of them lost her footing on the bank and slipped into the water.
Priyanshi, seventeen years old, went into the river first. The moment she disappeared, her two companions—Khushbu, eighteen, and Ruby, nineteen—moved without hesitation to pull her back out. But the river's depth betrayed them. Both girls found themselves caught in water too deep to stand in, their own rescue attempt becoming a drowning.
Their cries carried across the water to nearby villagers, who heard the desperation in their voices and ran toward the sound. These neighbors waded in and managed to bring all three girls out of the river and onto solid ground. There was still a chance, still hope. The girls were loaded into a vehicle and rushed to the Bijua community health centre, the nearest place equipped to help them.
When they arrived at the health centre, there was nothing left to do. All three were pronounced dead on arrival. The police, led by station house officer Siyaram Verma, began the formal procedures—documenting the names, recording the ages, arranging for post-mortem examinations to establish the precise cause of death.
The three girls—Priyanshi at seventeen, Khushbu at eighteen, and Ruby at nineteen—had been neighbors in Bajhera village, living in the same community under the jurisdiction of the Bhira police station. They were at an age when a trip to the river might have seemed like a simple, ordinary thing. The Sharda river was part of their landscape, a place they knew. But rivers do not distinguish between the familiar and the foreign, between those who respect them and those who do not. The water took all three.
Citazioni salienti
The girls had gone to the Sharda river and while walking along the river, Priyanshi slipped into it. Ruby and Khushbu attempted to pull her out but they got stuck in deep waters.— Police statement via SHO Siyaram Verma
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