In a tragic incident, two MBA students of local colleges drowned in river Narmada at Omkareshwar on Friday morning. The deceased identified as Mridul, son of Anil Kumar Chouhan, a native of Bareli (Uttar Pradesh) and Nitesh, son of Ashok Jharakhia, a native of Jhanshi had reportedly gone to Omkareshwar on Thursday evening on motorcycle after celebrating the birthday of their friends in Indore.
The deceased’s’ friends Anurag and Swapnil informed that after celebrating the birthday in Indore in the day, they had gone to Omkareshwar on Thursday night on motorcycle to have a darshan of lord Omkareshwar. On Friday morning, they went to Chakrateerth Ghat to take a holy dip in Narmada River.
During the course of bathing, Nitesh who went a little deep inside the water got swept away. Seeing him drowing, Mridul in an attempt to save him, stretched his arm but he too got swept away deep inside the water. Seeing them drowning we raised an alarm, however, by the time boatmen arrived there both the victims had drowned to death.
Boatmen Tukaram Manglia and laxman later swam through the river and brought bodies of both the victims on the river bank. later they informed about the matter to police. Ccollege administration has sent its senior officials to the incident site.With the help of police bodies of both the deceased were brought to Indore where their postmortem was performed.
Meanwhile the incident has cast a pall of gloom in the colleges where both the deceased were studying. Police informed about the incident to family members of the deceased and they were expected to reach Indore on Saturday. Police said both the students were pursing their MBA degrees from IPC Academy.