Tribune News Service
Haridwar, October 23
A youth from Gaziabad was drowned near the Mala Kunti Talla Dangu beach camp at Rishikesh .
According to Revenue Inspector Madan Bisht, an eight-member tourist group arrived from Gaziabad in Rishikesh on Sunday morning for weekend rafting.
When the group members arrived at the beach camp, one of them Ram Singh, 32, son of Kamal Singh, went for swimming in the Ganga but due to strong currents was swept away by the flow of the river.
Seeing him drowning, group members shouted for help and beach camp workers dived to save the youth. The beach camp workers caught hold of him and took him out of the river in an unconsciousness state.
He was taken in an 108 emergency ambulance to the Rishikesh government hospital where doctors declared him brought dead.