LAGATAR24 NETWORK
Daltonganj, July 17: A class VIII student, Aditya Verma, 16, and first-semester student, Kaushal Verma, 20, of Daltonganj got drowned in the Suga bandh in the Bareysarn range of the Palamu Tiger Reserve (PTR) late Sunday afternoon, about 70 km away from here.
Bodies of the two were fished out after a great many efforts put up by the local Birjiya tribal people, PTR personnel and local Bareysarn police.
Ranjit Yadav, the officer-in-charge of the Bareysanr police station, said there were nine boys of Daltonganj here at Suga bandh on Sunday taking a bath when two of the nine got drowned in the whirlpool of the Suga bandh.
The seven survivors did try to save these two but in vain.
Members of the families of Aditya Verma and Kaushal Verma reached Bareysanr this Monday morning only where cops accompanied the two families to the Sadar Hospital Latehar for the post-mortem of the two boys, said police officer Ranjit Yadav.
Yadav said a UD case has been registered with the Bareysanr police station.
Deputy Director South division of the PTR Kumar Ashish has expressed his deepest condolences to the bereaved families.
Ashish said, “Our PTR team and eco-development committee members always remind tourists here not to indulge in any dangerous water sport in Suga bandh which is a turbulent one following its feeder river Burha Nadi, a rain-sourced river.”
“The tourists just keep ignoring our words of caution and advice to keep off the whirlpool of the water of the Suga bandh,” lamented Ashish.
