Jammu: Two minor girls were found dead in a trench filled with rain water in Samba district, officials said here on Sunday.
The bodies of Asiya (10) and Tahira (9) were recovered from the ditch at Lower Birpur in Bari Brahmana area of Samba, they said.
The officials said the girls, belonging to nomadic families from south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, were grazing their animals when they were reported missing on Saturday evening.
However, the girls remained untraced despite a search and finally their bodies were retrieved from the ditch, they said, adding preliminary investigation suggested that the girls might have accidentally fallen into the water body and died due to drowning.
The exact cause of their death would be known only after post-mortem, the officials said.
