Man drowns during idol immersion in Yamuna

A 20-year-old man drowned while participating in an idol immersion ritual in the Yamuna River in east Delhi’s Mayur Vihar area, triggering a multi-agency rescue operation, police said on Sunday.

The incident came to light on Saturday evening after the Mayur Vihar police station received information from the Uttar Pradesh Police about a man being swept away in a canal that feeds into the Yamuna, they said.

According to the police, a team immediately rushed to the spot to verify the information and conduct preliminary enquiries. “During the probe, it emerged that a group of eight to ten people from Sector-5 of Harola in Noida had travelled to the Yamuna riverbank for idol immersion,” a senior police officer said.