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Uttar Pradesh / Kanpur: Big accident, 6 drowned in Ganga, body of one found, divers are trying to find drowned people

Six people drowned while bathing in the Ganges at Kothi Ghat in Bilhaur’s Asind village in Kanpur. Two children were also among those who drowned. A young man was rescued by divers and hurriedly taken to Bilhaur CHC where doctors declared him brought dead. A team of divers is engaged with the villagers in search of the remaining people. There was chaos at the ghat over the incident. Police from nearby police station areas, including Bilhaur police, have reached for help.

According to eyewitnesses, three youths, along with two children and a young woman, were taking a bath in the Ganges at Kothi Ghat on Tuesday morning. While bathing, the children and the girl started drowning in deep water when the youths jumped into the Ganges to save them. The people standing on the banks of the ghat could understand that all had drowned in the Ganges, this caused a stir on the ghat. Villagers and divers informed the police and jumped into the Ganges to save them. Divers pulled 20-year-old Saurabh Katiyar from the middle stream. The villagers took him to CHC Bilhaur. Where the doctors declared him dead. While the search is on for Vinay Kumar Patel’s 15-year-old daughter Anushka, 13-year-old Anshika Patel, 20-year-old Abhay Katiyar, 18-year-old Tanu Katihar and Manu. All the people had come to the inauguration of Sandeep Katihar’s clothes shop in Baranda village.

CO Bilhaur Ranjit Kumar told that all the children had come to the inauguration of the new clothes shop of Sandeep Katiyar of Baranda village. All had gone for a picnic on the banks of the Ganges without informing the family members. A team of four divers has been landed in the Ganges. So far a youth has been taken out, but he died on reaching the CHC.

The negligence of the local police came to the fore
On Monday, SP Kanpur Outer Tejaswaroop Singh had instructed the station in-charges to take special security and precaution on the Ganga bath to be held on Tuesday. Inspector Atul Kumar Singh had instructed all the SIs, including Araul outpost in-charge Gyanendra Tripathi, to be stationed on the banks of the Ganges during bathing and Durga idol immersion, but there was no security during the accident at Kothi Ghat, nor police stationed at the ghat. Was.