Bhubaneswar, Oct 20 Three persons drowned while bathing in the Luna river in Odisha’s Kendrapara district on Tuesday, police said.
Five people from Gahaga village under Kendrapara Sadar police limits had gone to bathe in the river around 11 am, but three of them were subsequently swept away by strong currents, a police officer said.
Personnel from the fire services department and the Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force (ODRAF) launched a search operation and fished out the bodies, he said.
The deceased have been identified as Himanshu Sekhar Satapathy, Sabyasachi Swain and Chiranjib Parida.
(PTI News)
