Medininagar (Jharkhand), Oct 26 (PTI) Bodies of two persons, who had gone missing while bathing in the Sone river on the occasion of the Chhath festival on Sunday, were fished out in Jharkhand's Palamu district, police said.

The search was underway to trace another person, who also went missing after being swept away in the river, a senior officer said.

The deceased were from Bihar, he said.

Altogether six people went to bathe in the river near Pokhrahi village under the Hussainabad Police Station limits on the occasion of 'Kharna', a ritual of the four-day Chhath festival, and three of them waded deep into the water and were swept away by the current, he said.

Three others swam to shore, Hussainabad Police Station Officer-in-Charge Sonu Kumar Chaudhary said.

"Divers fished out the bo

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