A person drowned while taking bath while two of his freinds were still missing in river Kathsangada under Mandarpur GP in Baleswar district. Efforts were on by fire brigade personnel to trace the missing duo.
According to reports, five youths of Nilgiri had come to take bath in the river. They were swept away deep into the river gorge. Two of them could swim back to the bank. The local administration pressed the fire brigade to trace the missing ones.
Fire Services personnel fished out one dead body while the whereabouts of the missing ones were still not known. It was feared that they got trapped in a gorge in the river. The search and rescue operations were still on.