Surkhet, June 21 -- Three people died in separate drowning incidents in Surkhet district on Saturday, police said.

In the first incident, two teenage girls drowned while swimming in Tuni Khola in Birendranagar Municipality-10.

The deceased have been identified as 14-year-old Samjhana Thapa, daughter of Deepak Thapa, and 13-year-old Kalpana Rawat, daughter of Man Bahadur Rawat, both residents of Pathan Tole in Birendranagar.

They drowned while swimming in the river on Saturday evening.

Following the incident, a team from the Sub-Police Post Subbakuna, led by Assistant Sub-Inspector Anil Kumar Shahi, rescued them and rushed them to Karnali Province Hospital in Surkhet, where doctors declared them dead, police said.

In a separate incide...