The incidents of drowning of people in the Ganga are not ending. The body of a drowned six-year old boy has not been found yet and one more incident of drowning was reported on Monday. The 13-year old boy drowned in the Ganga at Rishikul ghat. The family members alleged that the rescue team was not fully equipped and only one diver was engaged in search of his body.
Ankit was bathing in the gang nehar (ganga canal) near Rishikul when he got swayed by the river current. Speaking to the pioneer, the father of the drowning boy, Surender Kumar said, “No one is listening to us and in the name of rescue only one person has been engaged by the Jal police.”
Mean while the onlookers blamed the district administration for not making ample arrangements for rescuing the people. “There are no caution boards and rescue guards on these ghats. Every now and then, the incidents of drowning are being reported,” said a local resident Himanshu Malhotra.
In a separate incident, a young girl got swayed in river ganga while bathing on Monday evening at ghat no 1. The locals shouted for help and tried to save her but in vain, the Jal police reached and tried to search the woman whose body was found on Sarvanand ghat after one hour of rescue operation.
The police said, “The deceased has been identified as, 18 years, resident of Dudhiyabandh had come with her family members when suddenly she got swayed in the swift current of water. After one hour of rescue operation her body was recovered by divers of Jal police.” The body has been handed over to the family members said the Chowki incharge Haridwar Mahendra Singh Negi.