Two HNB Garhwal University students drowned in Alaknanda river, one rescued
A tragedy about two youths having been drowned in the high tides of Alaknanda river leading to their unfortunates deaths is coming from Garhwal, Uttarakhand. According to the latest news the two students who died and the third student who has been admitted in the Government hospital in Srinagar in serious condition were from Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, Srinagar, Garhwal. The third student who is serious is the student if B Pharma in HNB, Garhwal University. The students who died after drowning were from Bihar and students of first semester of BTech. This dreaded tragedy occured the four HNB Garhwal University went to Alaknanda river for the purpose to bath. While taking bath the three of them went into deep river due to its high tides and were in a drowning mode perhaps because they didn’t knew how to swim. A student namely Kunal saw these three students drowning and crying for help in the Chauras river behind Saraswati Vidhya Mandir school. When the Kirti Nagar police station was informed about this news , it informed the State Disaster Management Authority team who reached the spot. The SDRF, 40 Pauri PAC police and Kirti Nagar police cumulatively carried out the search operation sending divers inside the Alaknanda River. All the three students were rescued and sent to the Srinagar Base government hospital where despite the best efforts of the doctors the two students were declared brought dead due to axphixiation and third student though serious could be saved. In the past too there have been such tragedies of youths dying due to drowning in Alaknanda river. The concerned authorities should permanently station the divers on the river bank at the spots from where youths usually go for bathing and then become victims in high tide Alaknanda waters.
