Assam Rifles jawan drowned to death

Bablu went for bath but plunged deep in rain-swollen lake and could not finally come out.

An Assam Rifles jawan has been drowned to death in Manipur’s Loktak Lake with the paramilitary force on Tuesday having ordered a probe into the circumstances that led to the incident.

An Assam Rifles statement said 21-year old rifleman Bablu Hussain Mazumdar,of 33 AR,was drowned in the Loktak Lake Monday afternoon.

Preliminary reports suggest he had gone for a bath but plunged deep in the rain-swollen lake and could not finally come out,the statement said.

An inquiry has been ordered into the circumstances of his death, it added.

A resident of Shillong,Mazumdar’s body was later fished out and sent for post-mortem at the Regional Institute of Medical Science,Imphal,the statement said.

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