Five people out of the total nine who entered the Brahmaputra at the Kharghuli river bank in Guwahati on the morning of Dec 10 for a swim were swept away by strong water currents
Search teams on Wednesday (Dec 17) recovered the body of another missing person who was swept away by the Brahmaputra in Kharghuli locality of Guwahati.
The body of Sagar Gautam of Gurugram, Haryana, was recovered today by NDRF teams near the ICA Water Project intake plant of JICA and was subsequently brought to the Uzan Bazaar river bank.
Five persons had gone missing as they were swept away by strong water current after they entered the Brahmaputra for a swim at the Kharghuli river bank on the morning of Wednesday (Dec 10).
Search teams had earlier recovered the body of Ronak Chadak of Bongaigaon and Pratap Rai (18) of Biswanath Chariali.
Two others — Upesh Kumar (43) of Biswanath Chariali and Abhijeet (20) of Uzan Bazar, Guwahati — are still missing with hopes of them being found alive fast fading.
NDRF and SDRF divers are, however, continuing search operations to rescue the missing duo.
WHAT HAPPENED ON WEDNESDAY?
A group of nine persons, including an American national and two Australian nationals of Indian origin who had come to visit the Bhakti Kutir — the Krishna temple situated at the Kharguli hills — had ventured towards the river banks to have a bath, an NDRF official told News Live.
Three of them ventured out to the river waters since they were good swimmers.
However, after crossing a stretch of the river, they reached a sand bar and signaled to their friends on the opposite bank to not take to the waters since it was quite deep in the middle and the river current was also quite strong, the official further said.
However, the other group took the warning lightly and stepped into the water.
Minutes later, the six of them were caught in the strong water current and were swept away by the strong water currents.
While one of them managed to swim ashore, the rest five were swept away, the official added.
Three of the four persons who had swum to safety have been identified as American national Jacob Knutsen, Pranav Nair and Keshav Verma.
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