Jamshedpur: A day after a 13-year-old girl was swept away by the Subarnarekha river while bathing at Gandhi Ghat in Mango under the Sakchi police station limits during Jitiya festival on Saturday, her body was recovered from a spot near the accident site, police said on Sunday.Santosh Thakur of Samta Nagar, Mango, had gone to the river with his wife and two daughters — Jyoti Kumari, 14, and Poonam Kumari, 13. While bathing, both girls slipped and were carried away by the current. Hearing the mother’s cries, locals rescued Jyoti. She was admitted at the MGM Hospital, where she is recovering. But Poonam was swept away, police added.“An NDRF team was on its way to the site of accident, but local divers managed to recover the body before the team arrived,” said Gopal Krishna Yadav, the officer in-charge of the Sakchi police station.
