India, Sept. 29 -- Four members of a family, including two minors, drowned in a pond dug in an agricultural field in Nuh district's Salaheri village, police said on Sunday. The incident occurred on Saturday afternoon, about 500 metres from their home.

Inspector Kuldeep Singh, station house officer (SHO) of Sadar police station, said two women and their daughters had gone to the field to wash clothes, a common practice among locals. "While the women were washing their clothes, it is suspected that one of the girls accompanying them had accidentally slipped and fallen straight into the waterlogged field," Singh said.

Preliminary investigation suggested that the others jumped into the water, several feet deep, to save the child but failed ...