Three Indians drown in their backyard pool in New Jersey

East Brunswick, New Jersey:
Three Indians died in a backyard pool Monday in New Brunswick, Jersey.

Officials confirmed the identity of the three as Bharat Patel, 62, his 33-year-old daughter-in-law Nisha Patel and her 8-year-old daughter.

The Middlesex County Regional Medical Examiner’s Office said the manner of death was accidental. The cause of death was determined to be drowning for all three victims, a report by CBS said.

Other reports said electrocution was a possibility. The family moved to the house only recently.

An electrician’s truck was spotted Monday helping investigators at the East Brunswick house shortly after the discovery of three bodies in the pool, including an 8-year-old girl, her mother and an elderly male relative.

‘It’s going around that they were electrocuted,’ the family’s next-door neighbor, who asked not to be named, told The New York Post Tuesday.
‘I understand that they just had the pool worked on,’ she added.
The family seemed excited to use the pool after servicing.

Police have not confirmed if they were electrocuted

Property records show that the property was bought for $451,000 by Akash and Nisha Patel in late April.

The former owner who sold the house insisted to The Post that there had been no problems with the pool before.

Police had been called to the home around 4:20 p.m. Monday when a neighbor heard screaming, thinking someone had fallen, police said.

‘We believe the mother was screaming from inside the pool for help,’ police spokesman said at a press conference.