Five people who were out for a picnic drowned in the Kanota Dam in Rajasthan's Jaipur on Sunday (August 11), officials said. Six youths who went out with friends to explore the Dam. Five of them drowned while trying to save one of their friends. The first youth, Raj, slipped, and when the other five — Harsh, Vinay, Vivek, Ajay, and Harkesh — rushed to save him, drowned, the police said.
Raj somehow managed to get out of the water and save his own life. Harsh, Vinay, Vivek, Ajay, and Harkesh, however, drowned. Upon receiving the information, Bassi Circle Officer, Kanota Station In-charge, Bassi Naib Tehsildar, along with police officers, reached the scene. SDRF and Civil Defense teams also arrived at the spot.
The youths were reported to be residents of Shastri Nagar, Jaipur. A rescue operation was launched to search for the drowned men in the dam. The SDRF and Civil Defense teams were taking part in the rescue efforts to find the youths.
Similar incident in Madhya Pradesh
In a tragic incident in Rewa district, Madhya Pradesh, three young sisters drowned in an under-construction septic tank filled with rainwater, police reported on Saturday. The incident occurred on Friday evening in Tamara village, within the jurisdiction of the Govindgarh police station.
The victims were identified as Janhavi Rajak, aged 6, Tanvi, aged 7, and Suhani, aged 9. According to Govindgarh police station in-charge Shiva Agrawal, the three sisters had left home to immerse clay idols in a waterbody as part of the Nag Panchami festivities.
"However, the sisters accidentally slipped and tragically drowned into the nearby pit, excavated for the construction of a septic tank, which had accumulated rainwater," the Govindgarh police station in-charge said.
