The duo went to the backwaters of the dam where the safety wire was broken, and people were prohibited. They got trapped in the current and drowned. Police and a local rescue team retrieved the bodies, police said
The incident occurred at Bhushi Dam in Lonavala, which sees heavy footfall of tourists and picnickers. Representational Pic/File
Two friends, on a picnic, drowned in the backwaters of Bhushi Dam in Lonavala in Maharashtra's Pune district on Sunday, police said, reported the PTI.
The incident occurred at Bhushi Dam in Lonavala, which sees heavy footfall of tourists and picnickers.
An official said that the victims, M. Jamal and Sahil Ashraf Ali Shaikh, both natives of Uttar Pradesh working in Pimpri Chinchwad, had gone to the dam for a picnic with their friends.
"The duo went to the backwaters of the dam where the safety wire was broken, and people were prohibited. They got trapped in the current and drowned. Police and a local rescue team retrieved the bodies," he said, according to the PTI.
Bodies of six teens drowned in Godavari river recovered
Meanwhile, the bodies of six teenagers, who were feared drowned in the Godavari river in Jayashankar Bhupalpally, were recovered on Sunday, as per the PTI.
The teenagers were in the age group of 13 and 19-year-old and had gone for a bath in the river in Mahadevpur mandal on Saturday evening when the incident took place.
An elaborate search operation was carried out to locate them and the bodies were recovered on Sunday, official sources said.
State IT and Industries Minister D Sridhar Babu on Saturday directed the district officials to make all efforts to locate the teenagers who had drowned.
Jharkhand: Bodies of 2 engineering students fished out, day after they drowned
In an another incident, the bodies of two engineering students, who had drowned in a river near Baroda ghat in Jharkhand's Jamshedpur a day earlier, were fished out on Sunday, the police said, reported the PTI.
The two students had reportedly slipped while taking a bath and drowned in the river on Saturday afternoon, they said.
A friend of the duo, however, was rescued by the locals from the river, and rushed to a private hospital later, a police officer said.
The bodies of the deceased who were identified as Shubham Kumar and Shashank were fished out by divers near Shiva ghat in Bagbeda area on Sunday morning, the officer said, the news agency reported.
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