A young man who had come to visit Rishikesh drowned in the Ganga near Ramjhula boat ghat, search continues….
A young man who had come to Rishikesh with his friends drowned in the Ganga near Ramjhula boat ghat. The SDRF and police teams are searching for the young man. Laxmanjhula police station in-charge inspector Ravi Kumar Saini said that six friends from Haryana had come to visit the Laxmanjhula area on Friday.
At night, he went to take a bath near the boat ghat of Ramjhula police. During this, suddenly the feet of Naresh son Baldev Singh (35 years), resident of village Karonda Kala, police station Narwana, district Jind, Haryana slipped and he went into deep water.
Due to darkness, his companions could not help him and the young man disappeared in the waves of Ganga. Laxmanjhula police reached the spot after getting the information. But, due to darkness, the police could not carry out the search operation. On Saturday morning, the SDRF team reached the spot.
SDRF inspector Kavindra Sajwan said that the place where this accident happened, the depth of Ganga is very high, so the help of deep diving team is being taken for searching. The other team is searching from the incident site to the barrage. He said that the relatives of the youth who drowned in Ganga have also reached here.