Gonda (UP), Oct 21: Three people, including two teenagers, who went missing after drowning in separate incidents during Durga idol immersion in Uttar Pradesh’s Gonda district, their bodies were found on Wednesday morning, police said.
Superintendent of Police Abhishek said the bodies were recovered from the Tedhi and Kuano rivers in the Tarabganj and Dhanepur police station areas, respectively.
Local divers, along with teams of the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and the Provincial Armed Constabulary’s (PAC) flood relief unit, had been deployed to search for the missing persons, he said.
According to the SP, residents of Bhairampur village in the Tarabganj area had gone to immerse a Durga idol in the Tedhi River near Laxmanpur on Tuesday evening when five youths began drowning.
Pradeep, 20, managed to reach the riverbank and rescued Raghuvar, 19, and Sumit Prajapati, 20. However, Sumit died during treatment at a hospital later that night.
Bodies of Abhishek Tiwari, 18, and Ram Vilas Prajapati, 18, who went missing in the incident, were found on Wednesday morning, the SP said.
In another incident, the body of Tularam Shukla, 45, a resident of Shivbaksh Purwa in Bihuri village, who went missing on Tuesday after drowning, was recovered from the Kuano River at Bhainsahwa Ghat in the Dhanepur police station area on Wednesday morning.
The bodies have been sent for post-mortem examination, police said. (PTI)
