The missing girl, an eight-year-old, may have jumped into the water to save the other two girls, one of whom was her elder sister, say police. Four girls — Siddhi Patel, 12, her sister Manvi, 8, and their friends Ananya Patel, 6, and Aanshik Patel, 14 – had gone to bathe in a canal in Umariyapan village, around 40km from Katni district headquarters and 370km from Bhopal. They bathed Manvi first and sat her on the canal bank after which the other three went back into water, said SP Abhijeet Ranjan. Realising that they were drowning, Ananya sprinted back to the village to get help. When a rescue party and police arrived on the scene, they found Manvi was missing too, said the SP, who added that Siddhi had slipped into deeper water and started thrashing about in panic. The girls are feared dead.