Ahead of the last Monday function of the Sravan month,the fifth month of the Hindu calendar, when Shiva devotees offer holy water over the Bhagwan Shiva in Deoghar, bodies of three children were recovered from a pond in Jharkhand’s Deoghar district on Friday morning.

While hundreds of Kanwarias were pouring holy water on the Babadham temple, these bodies of the children, aged eight and nine, were found in a pond in Dodia village under Sonaraithari police station area. 

According to Deoghar Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) Ritvik Shrivastava, these children were reported missing by their parents since Thursday and after they failed to trace them, they lodged a complaint with police.

On Friday, they cremated their bodies amid a milieu of grief and shock.