25yo Delhi man swept away while bathing in Ganga at Rishikesh
Haridwar: A 25-year-old man from Delhi was swept away while bathing in the Ganga at the Golf Course ghat in Rishikesh on Thursday afternoon. The deceased, identified as Sachin Kumar, was a resident of Nirman Vihar in Delhi and had arrived in Haridwar earlier in the day with a female companion.
Officials said that Sachin ventured into deep waters and was swept away by the strong current while his friend remained on the riverbank.
"Our teams launched a search operation immediately, but we've not been able to trace him so far," said State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) area in-charge Kavindra Sajwan.
He added that Sachin was employed at a private firm in Delhi and his family has been informed about the incident.
Search and rescue operations by the SDRF were on till the filing of this report.
The incident adds to a growing list of drowning cases in the region. On Sunday, Guddu Yadav, a supervisor at a Gurgaon-based transport company, drowned in Rishikesh. Just last month, Pradeep Dhaka, a 35-year-old bank employee from Haryana, drowned in the Chilla canal. In another incident, the bodies of two young girls swept away by the Ganga were recovered by SDRF in April.
"Till Jan, we recovered around 20 bodies from the river—most of them from the Rishikesh region—while eight persons were rescued by our teams from the Rishikesh and Raiwala areas," said Sajwan.
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