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Kanpur: Two class 3 students drowned in a water-filled pit in Deipur village of Auraiya Airwakatra area on Tuesday evening, while in a separate incident a 13-year-old boy is missing after drowning in a drain in Rajaram Nagariya. The deceased were identified as Krishna (8), son of Anil Kumar, and Aryan (9), son of Rajiv Kumar. Krishna and Aryan had gone with friends towards Chhibramau Road, where an about 5-foot-deep pit had been dug in Raju Yadav ’s field for dumping gravel from trucks. Dial 112 police took them to Community Health Centre Airwakatra, where doctors declared them dead. Separately, Hari (13) drowned in a drain in Rajaram Nagariya.
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