Tikamgarh:

Two minor brothers fell in a river in Madhya Pradesh’s Tikamgarh district on Sunday while playing and drowned, police said.

The incident occurred near Lar village, about 30 km from the Tikamgarh district headquarters, when two brothers, aged five and eight years, were playing near the Ur river while their parents were working in an agriculture field, said Jatara police station in-charge Arvind Singh Dangi.

After their parents couldn’t find their children, they started looking for them when they spotted the two bodies floating in the river, he said.

The children were declared brought dead by doctors at Jatara Community Health Centre, he said.

A case has been registered, and further investigation is underway.

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Sagar:

Three persons were arrested in Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar city on Thursday after a video showing a woman being brutally thrashed at a bus stand went viral.

She was apparently deranged, a senior police official said.

The woman was dragged, beaten with sticks and kicked in the face even as her five-month-old infant lay on the ground nearby, the video showed.

Praveen Raikwar (26), Vicky Yadav (20) and Rakesh Prajapathi (40) were arrested by Gopalganj police on Thursday, said Additional Superintendent of Police Lokesh Sinha.

According to local sources, police paraded the accused on the road while taking them to the court which sent them in judicial custody.

As per the preliminary probe, the incident took place on the intervening night of August 12-13.

The middle-aged woman went to buy milk from the canteen at the bus stand. Something happened and three men in the canteen thrashed her, police said.

The video showed her begging for mercy and crying ‘Bhaiyya.. Bhaiyya’. The people around were heard asking the accused not to beat her.

Sagar Superintendent of Police Abhishek Tiwari claimed that the woman appeared to be deranged. Probe was on, he added.

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