Begusarai, Mar 14 (UNI) Two boys were drowned in river Ganga under Sahebpur Kamal police station area in this district of Bihar on Friday.

Police said here that four boys of Kharahat village had gone to take bath in the river after celebrating the Holi festival.

One of them suddenly slipped deep into the water and the other three also went deep into the water while saving him.

The villagers rescued two boys and rushed them to the hospital for treatment. Later the divers fished out the bodies of two boys from the river.

The deceased were identified as Devraj Kumar(13) and Abhinav Kumar(16). The bodies have been sent to a hospital for post-mortem.

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