15-year-old boy among 2 drown in Narmada, bodies recovered

Around 4 pm on Friday, Ramesh and Yash were swept away, resulting in local divers and the fire department starting a search and rescue operation. However, the operation was called off for the day after sunset, as Ramesh and Yash were feared drowned. Early Saturday, the Karjan fire department retrieved the two bodies about 2 km away from the spot where they had drowned.

A member of the group, Pradeep Patel, said, “Our family members had arrived from Mandwa and Maktampura for a picnic on Friday. We were all enjoying a bath in the river when we realised that Ramesh and Yash were missing. We started looking for them but could not find them and thus informed the talati of Diver village, who informed the deputy mamlatdar and a rescue team of the fire department arrived at the spot.”

This is the third incident of drowning reported at rivers in Vadodara district in two weeks. A group of seven persons from Surat had drowned in the Narmada river at Poicha on May 14 while bodies of four unidentified youth were recovered from Mahisagar river by the Vadodara taluka police on Thursday.