20 August,2023 10:11 PM IST | Latur | mid-day online correspondent
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An 18-year-old boy allegedly drowned while swimming in Terna river in Maharashtra's Latur district on Sunday, police said, according to the PTI.
The incident took place at Gunjarga village of Nilanga tehsil in the afternoon, an official said, as per the PTI.
Shyam Venkatrao Jadhav, a Class 11 student, went for a swim in the river and drowned, he said.
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The police had launched a search operation for the body, but later suspended the same due to poor light, the official said.
A team from the disaster management cell will resume the search on Monday, tehsildar Usha Shrangare said, according to the PTI.
Meanwhile, in an another incident, as many as seven fishermen were rescued from a sinking boat in the Arabian Sea off the coast of Maharashtra's Raigad district, an official from the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) said on Sunday, the PTI reported on Sunday.
The remains of the boat that sank on August 17 were found washed up on the shore of Diveagar in Raigad district this morning, the official said.
The incident took place near Dighi Adgaon around 4 pm on Thursday (August 17), when a crew of seven fishermen had ventured nine miles into the sea on their boat "Bana Sagar", he said.
As the boat started sinking, two trawlers from Gujarat, which were in the vicinity, rescued the seven fishermen, the official said.
The crew was safely brought out by the time the coast guard reached the scene, he said.
The sinking boat, however, could not be salvaged on that day. It was found washed up on the shore of Diveagar on Sunday morning, the official said.
The trio set out in the boat for fishing from Devachiwadi in Versova area between 8 pm and 9 pm on Saturday, he had said.
The boat overturned, about two-three km from the seashore, the official said quoting local people and police.
One of the three persons, identified as Vijay Bamania (35), swam to safety, he had said.
(with PTI inputs)
