Ranchi, Oct 27 (PTI) Five more children drowned at various places in Jharkhand, taking the toll to 11 in two days, mostly during the Chhath festival, police said on Monday.

A teenage boy and two men also went missing in waterbodies on Monday.

Five children died in the state’s Hazaribag, Garhwa and Simdega districts, police said. Six others had drowned in Simdega and Palamu districts on Sunday.

Two girls - Gungun Kumari (11) and Rupa Tiwari (12) - drowned in a pond in Bela village in Keredari police station area of Hazaribag during Chhath Puja on Sunday evening, police said.

The bodies were sent for the post-mortem examination.

In Garhwa, 13-year-old Rahul Kumar drowned in the Danro river under Sadar police station limits while taking a bath on Monday afternoon, police said.

Sadar pol

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