Maharashtra: Four picknickers feared drowned in river in Nagpur

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Four persons, including a woman, are feared to have drowned in Kanhan river in Nagpur district of Maharashtra on Thursday during their picnic, police said, the PTI reported.

All four are said to be in their twenties, the police said.

The incident occurred in the afternoon at Waka under the Khapa police station limits in Saoner tehsil of the district in Nagpur, they said.

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"A group of around six persons, all in their twenties, was on a picnic at Kanhan river when four of them entered the water to play. However, they could not come out of the water and were feared to have drowned. The police were alerted about the incident around 4 pm," a police official told the PTI.

A search operation is on to trace the victims, he added.

The victims have been identified as Vijay Thakre, Sonia Marskolhe, Ankul Baghel and Arpit, the police said.

Meanwhile, in an another incident, last week, two persons were feared drowned in a river in Maharashtra's Thane district on Friday, a fire brigade official told news agency PTI.

Around 11.30 am, Salman Purkan Ansari (24) and his friend Sarfaraj Aslam Ansari (28) went to the Ulhas river in Ulhasnagar on the outskirts of Mumbai for a bath, reported PTI.

Sarfaraj jumped into the river for a swim but got swept away due to the strong current. Seeing his friend in trouble, Salman also dived in to save him but he was too got washed away, the official told PTI.

The search to trace both was going on till late in the night, he said.

Earlier, a 17-year-old boy drowned in a water-filled quarry at Virar in Maharashtra's Palghar district while trying to get a ball out of it when he was playing cricket nearby, a fire brigade official told news agency PTI on August 5.

The incident occurred on August 3 evening, he said.

"The boy, identified as Yash Solkar, tried to get the ball that fell into the water-filled quarry out of it when he was playing a game of cricket on August 3 evening. However, he drowned in the water body," the official told PTI.

The fire brigade personnel rushed to the spot after being alerted, but could not trace him, he said.

Later, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) was called in. Its personnel managed to recover the victim's body, he added.

The body was later sent for post-mortem to a government hospital and an accidental death report was filed, another official told PTI.

(with PTI inputs)