Four youths drowned in two separate incidents near the Vaitarna dam in Maharashtra’s Nashik district, police said on Monday.
According to police, four students from a local college entered the water at Zarwad Bet (an island) in the Vaitarna dam area on Sunday.
Two of them, identified as Aditya Pramod Vanare (20) and Veerendra Nandan Patil (20), drowned, and their bodies were fished out on Monday. Vanare was a resident of Buldhana district, while Patil hailed from Jalgaon, an official from Ghoti police station said.
In another incident, two Nashik residents, Atharva Sunil Gosavi (21) and Manish Dilip Chavan (21), drowned at the Dugarwadi waterfall near the dam on Sunday evening, he said.
Rescue operations were launched immediately but were halted at night due to poor visibility.
The bodies were retrieved on Monday, the official added.
The Ghoti police have registered two cases of accidental death, he said.
10-year-old boy drowns while swimming in lake in Thane
In a similar incident earlier in April, a 10-year-old boy lost his life after drowning while he was swimming with his friends in a lake in Thane city of Maharashtra, police said, reported the PTI.
The incident took place earlier on April 2, at a lake in the Mogarpada locality, which falls under the jurisdiction of the Kasarwadavali Police Station.
According to police, the boy had gone to the lake with his friends and entered the water for a swim, during which he drowned.
Rescue efforts launched
His friends raised an alarm after the incident, prompting police and fire brigade personnel to rush to the scene. After a search operation, the boy’s body was later recovered from the lake, as per the PTI.
Authorities have registered a case of accidental death, and further formalities are being carried out.
Two children drown in Bhandara
In an another incident, two children drowned in a pond in Maharashtra`s Bhandara district, police said on Wednesday, reported the PTI.
The tragic incident took place at Rongha village in Tumsar taluka in Bhandara, police said.
According to the officials, the children were identified as Chandrapal Rupchand Kumbhare (7) and Sarthak Sanjay Uike (6). Both went missing while playing on Tuesday afternoon.
Their bodies were seen floating in the nearby pond on Wednesday morning which were later pulled out and shifted to a hospital.
Gobarwahi Police was conducting further probe in the matter, the officials said.
Two drown in Rajasthan`s Hanumangarh canal
Meanwhile, two men allegedly drowned in a canal in Rajasthan`s Hanumangarh on Wednesday while immersing `puja` materials, the police said, according to the PTI.
The incident occurred in the Sadul Branch canal in the Hanumangarh Junction area when Mohit Swami (20) slipped while immersing `puja` materials, and Aman Bajigar (19) and Mohit Thalod (19) jumped in to rescue him, Additional SP Arvind Vishnoi said, as per the PTI.
A disaster management team rushed to the spot and later pulled them out and rushed them to the district hospital, police said.
Swami and Bajigar lost their lives, while Thalod is reported to be in stable condition and was getting medical treatment, the SP said.
(With PTI inputs)