In a tragic incident, two brothers belonging to Rourkela and a youth from Mumbai drowned in River Brahmani at the Tarkera Ghat on the outskirts of Rourkela on Thursday morning. The bodies were found by the local fire brigade team.
Sources said P Sarat Babu (24) and P Shyam Babu (23) of Railway Colony here and their friend from Mumbai, Pankaj Tambe (25), were bathing in the river when the mishap occurred. Pankaj had come to the Babu family to attend their elder brother’s marriage ceremony. He had to return to Mumbai on Thursday night.
At around 9.30 am, Sarat and Shyam took permission from family members to take Pankaj to the Hanuman Vatika for a visit. But they instead went to the river for a bath at the Tarkera ghat. First, Shyam and Pankaj entered into the river to take dips but drowned. Seeing them drowning Sarat Babu went into the to rescue them. But he too drowned.
locals who were present there soon informed the Raghunathpalli police and the local Fire brigade about the incident. Fire brigade personnel made a search operation and recovered body of Sarat first. After about one hour, they recovered the bodies of Shyam and Pankaj. Police soon sent the bodies to the Rourkela Government Hospital for postmortem after registering a case. Further investigation is on, police said.