A teenager who had gone to bathe in the Khurpatal lake on Sunday here was reported to have drowned in the lake. The police, fire brigade and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) personnel reached the site to search for the 18-year old lad. Till the time of this news report being filed, the personnel had not been able to find the youth.
According to local sources, Khurpatal resident 18-year old Suraj Pant, son of Kailash Pant, had gone along with four of this friends to take a dip in the Khurpatal lake.
On seeing the group, local farmer Govind Singh Kanwal, who was working on a nearby farmland, scolded the group of youngsters and told them to refrain from bathing in the lake.
On being pulled up by the local, four of the youth came out of the lake while Suraj who was still taking a dip in the lake at this time, appeared to be drowning.
His friends raised the alarm and shouted for help. However, by the time the locals could reach the lake, the youth had drowned. On being informed about the incident, the Kotwali in charge PS Bhakuni reached the lake. He was also accompanied by police divers Manoj Yadav and Manoj Joshi, fire service personnel Durga Singh Bhandari, Uttam Singh, Prakash Ram, Dinesh Singh and Mukesh Kumar along with an SDRF team and the village Pradhan Manmohan Singh Kanwal. However, efforts by the personnel had not succeeded in finding the youth.