Four out of five bodies were fished out from Betwa River on Monday. The five boys had drowned in the river on Sunday.
According to Obedullahganj SHO MS Meena told that divers fished out four bodies, but the body of fifth victim Swapnil Tiwari could not be recovered as yet. The rescue operations were started early morning with the help of the divers from local area from Bhopal.
The bodies of the four victims which were fished out are Abhay Gupta (Sidhi), Mohit Neekhra (Kanpur), and Pratul Gupta (Rewa) and Ujjwal Bharke (Bhopal)
The rescue operation was started in the morning and the first body was found at around 9 am and by 3.30 pm three other bodies were recovered. The bodies were sent for the post mortem. The operation continued to find the last victim but was not recovered till the operation was stalled in the evening.
Providing the distance at which the bodies were found the police told that all the four bodies were recovered in a radius of around 100-200 m. The area of water body where the victims drowned had huge stones lying in bed due to which the bodies were not swept to larger distances.
Earlier on Sunday around two dozen students of Maharsihi Vidhya Mandir School Ratanpur had gone to picnic on Sunday afternoon at Bhojpur. At around 3-4 pm when one of the students jumped into the river he got injured and started drowning, to rescue him four of his friends jumped into the river but were swept due to the high water current.
None of the victims were found by the rescue team till the operation lasted late in the evening on Sunday.