HARIDWAR: In less than 24 hours, Uttarakhand recorded three incidents in which three tourists drowned while bathing in a river. In the first incident which took place at Rishikesh, a five-year-old girl who had come from Delhi with her parents drowned in the Ganga. The girl, Ashi Sharma, was bathing at Swaminarayan ghat with her family when a strong river current swept her away, said Ritesh Saha, SHO of Muni-ki-Reti police station. Her body was not found till the time of filing this report.
In another incident that took place on Sunday morning, a 28-year-old tourist from Muzaffarnagar drowned in the Ganga. The victim, Arun Kumar, was camping at Dangu Talla village in Pauri Garhwal with his friends.
