Kolkata June 25 (IANS) Three tourists including a seven-year-old girl were drowned while bathing in the sea in South 24 Parganas district in West Bengal police said on Sunday.
The incident took place at Henry s Island sea beach about 130 km from Kolkata.
Somraj Gupta of Kasba in south Kolkata got swept away along with his seven-year-old daughter Samrima while bathing on Saturday afternoon a police officer said. A family friend Rishita Pramanik also got drowned.
According to police a total of six members of two families from Kolkata had gone on a pleasure trip to the Henry s Island. The three got pulled into the sea by the tidal waves. The bodies have been recovered.
--IANS
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