By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR: The rescue team engaged in Kuakhai river tragedy retrieved dead bodies of two more youths from the river on Wednesday morning taking the toll to four in the very unfortunate incident. The deceased youths have been identified as Aryan of Jamshedpur, Abhinash from Cuttack, Rohit from Balasore and Prateik from Cuttack.
Bodies of two other youths were fished out from the river on Tuesday. They were Aryan of Jamshedpur and Kumar Abinash of Cuttack area
Reportedly, the four of them drowned while taking bath in the Kuakhai River on Tuesday evening. The mishap occurred near Dhabalahara under Balianta Police limits on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar.
According to an eyewitness, eight youths had come to the river for taking a bath. As ill luck could have it, four of them went deep into the water and drowned, leading to untimely deaths.
A team of local fire services personnel carried out a search operation at the mishap site, which was stopped after the fall of night. The operation resumed this morning while two more bodies were recovered.
On the 27th of May 2023, two engineering students drowned in Kuakhai river near Indrapal in Balianta on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar.
