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
The body of the fourth person swept away by the Brahmaputra in Kharghuli locality of Guwahati on Dec 10 was recovered on Thursday.
The body of Abhijit (21), son of Kamal Choudhury and a resident of Uzan Bazaar locality of the city, was recovered by a search team taking the total number of bodies recovered so far to four.
The body of Sagar Gautam of Gurugram, Haryana, was recovered by an NDRF team near the ICA Water Project intake plant of JICA yesterday (Dec 17).
Search teams had earlier recovered the bodies of Ronak Chadak of Bongaigaon and Pratap Rai (18) of Biswanath Chariali.
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).
Upesh Kumar (43) of Biswanath Chariali is still missing with the likelihood of him being found alive fast diminishing as NDRF and SDRF divers continue efforts to rescue locate him in what appears to be an almost futile search to recover him alive.
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 had told News Live the day the incident took place.
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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