Bodies of two more youths, swept away in a flash flood in Haryana’s Panchkula district, were on Thursday recovered from the Ghaggar river.
Eight youths, celebrating a party, had entered the river and were swept away in the flash flood, triggered by heavy rains in neighbouring Himachal on July 24.
“Two more bodies were fished out on Thursday. One body was retrieved on Wednesday. Efforts are on to trace the remaining boys who were swept away in the river,” Panchkula Deputy Commissioner SS Phulia said.
Three persons are still missing in the incident. Officials fear that they may have died in the tragic accident as there was little chance of their survival.
Police said three bodies identified so far are residents of Panchkula including Hitesh of sector 15, Ravinder of sector 14 and Samvit of sector 11.
Rescue teams had fished out the body of Shubham Bhalla on Wednesday and now after fishing out three more bodies from Ghaggar on Thursday, toll reached at four out of eight. However two youths were saved by the local farmers on the same day, when this mishap took place.