Surajpur, Oct 24 Four members of a family, including two minor brothers, drowned while bathing in Ran river in Chhattisgarh’s Surajpur district on Saturday, a police official said.
The incident took place at Ram Saraswatipur Ghat, the Bishrampur police station official said.
He identified the deceased as Vivek Kumar Singh (45), his son Abhijit Singh (20), and siblings Gopal Krishna (13) and Krishna Gopal (15), he said.
“Vivek, a resident of Patna in Bihar, had come to visit his wife in Chandrapur village here along with two sons of his wife’s sister, who lives in Katihar in Bihar. The four had gone to Ram Saraswatipur Ghat to bathe. Abhijit and his cousins Gopal and Krishna began drowning in deep water,” he said.
Vivek jumped into the river to save them, but all four drowned, the official added.
A team comprising police personnel and divers from the homeguard department managed to fish out the four bodies, he said.
A case has been registered and further investigation is underway, the official added.
(PTI News)
