KUMUD JENAMANI
Jamshedpur, July 29: A 30-member team of NDRF has come to Ashingi under the RIT thana area in Adityapur to trace out the bodies of two teenagers who drowned in an under-construction check-dam along the Kharkai river on Sunday afternoon.
Identified as Aditya Mahto and Sumeet Modi, both 15 years old, were swept away in a strong current of the under-construction check-dam while taking a bath in the water body.
Bodies not traced till noon
RIT thana OC, Vinay Kumar Singh said that though the NDRF team has been pressed into service for the past two hours this morning, neither of the two bodies could be traced till noon.
“The NDRF team which has arrived here from Ranchi this morning is making all efforts by using boats, but none of the bodies could be located as of now. The search operation for the bodies is on, ” said Singh while talking to The Jharkhand Story.
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Group of 5 boys came to bath, two swept away
Residents of Icchapur in Adityapur, both the drowning victims were among a group of five boys who had ventured out of their houses to take a bath in the Ashingi check-dam. As the boys plunged into the water body, Aditya and Sumeet drifted down to a deep water zone and were swept away in the undercurrent.
The remaining boys had just watched the two being swept away but could not do anything except scream for help. As there was no one else to come to the rescue of the victims, the remaining boys returned home and informed about the incident to their parents.
The news about the two boys being swept away in the under-construction check-dam had spread like wildfire in the densely-populated Icchapur, causing the anxious parents of the victims to rush to the Ashingi check-dam.
The RIT thana OC, Gamharia CO, Kamal Kishore Singh, and former AMC’s vice chairman, Purendra Narayan Singh and former local corporator Dhiren Mahto reached the spot. They all had first pressed a team of local divers to search the bodies, but as it could not trace them till the evening, the administration contacted the NDRF team in Ranchi to do the job.
