BANNU: Three children taking a bath in a seasonal stream drowned on Monday. It was learnt that the children were internally displaced persons from North Waziristan. They were identified as Abu Huraira, 6, Wahidullah, 9, and Munibullah, 7. They were bathing in Karwan Khwar near Tazeeri Chowk in the limits of the Township Police Station when they drowned. The local people retrieved the bodies after hectic efforts, which were handed over to parents at the Khalifa Gul Nawaz Memorial Hospital in Bannu.