Child drownings assuming alarming proportions in Madhesh districts

As many as 49 people, 39 of them children, have drowned in the province since the start of the fiscal year on July 16.

It was a sweltering summer day in Dhanusha, a Tarai district of Madhesh Province, on September 4. Three children dived into a pond in ward 7 of Laxminiya Rural Municipality in Dhanusha apparently to escape the heat. Unaware of the pond’s depth, the children aged between 8 and 14 drowned.