Three members of a group of tourists are reported to have drowned in the Ganga river near a resort for tourists here on Sunday. A group of about fifteen tourists were camping at the Himalayan river adventure resort since Saturday night.
The group of fifteen tourist youth included five from Gujarat and ten from Delhi. On Sunday afternoon at about 1PM, the whole group went to play volleyball near Sirasu, Gullarghati. During that period four of the youths went to take a dip in the Ganga river and as they entered the river, they started drowning. Seeing their situation, the other youth in the group of tourists made efforts to save them and also succeeded in saving one of the youth though three others drowned in the river. The drowned youth have been identified as 23 years old Abbas from Dahod district in Gujarat, Hussain, aged 23 years, also from Dahod district in Gujarat and 22 years old Mohit from Delhi.
The Himalayan river adventure resort lies in between Vyasi and Shivpuri in the jurisdiction of the lakshmanjhula police station in the Pauri district. There are many other resorts in this area where rafting camps are organised for tourists. The Pauri district senior superintendent of police Mukhtar Mohsin told The Pioneer that on receiving information about the incident, the police station house officer of lakshmanjhula with the police team reached the spot and immediately informed State Disaster Response Force for the conduct of a rescue operation. The divers of he SDRF were making efforts to recover the bodies of the three drowned youth, but had not been able to recover the same till the time of this report being filed in the evening. The senior superintendent of police further informed that the Srinagar Garhwal police circle officer Manju Nath is also at the site of the incident. It is being said that the youth camping at the river adventure resort here were students from an engineering college.