NIT Kurukshetra Students Drown In Canal

CHANDIGARH: Two National Institute of Technology (NIT) students were reported to have drowned in a canal on the outskirts of Kurukshetra. Rahul from Bihar and Anubhav from Uttar Pradesh have been identified as the deceased. 

They were in their final year of the BTech (civil engineering) programme. The divers assisted in retrieving the pair's bodies, which were then taken to the civil hospital for an autopsy. The head of the Kurukshetra University (KU) police station shared information. 

Mange Ram claimed that on Tuesday night, when a group of students living in the hostel walked to the canal, the incident happened. According to the police, one of the teenagers initially slipped into the canal as his friend dove in to assist him.

Soon after learning of the occurrence, institute representatives and a police squad arrived at the canal and started conducting searches with the aid of divers. According to NIT Kurukshetra's public relations officer, Vivek Mittal, the incident has been reported to the students' families.

In the Ahmednagar area of Maharashtra, a five-year-old kid drowned after falling down a borewell that was 15 feet deep. Even after late-night rescue efforts, the young boy could not be saved. The area was prepared with an ambulance and other medical equipment. The kid, according to officials, apparently suffocated to death before he could be saved.

"The youngster was stranded 15 feet below the surface. An ambulance and other medical equipment were on standby at the scene, and a rescue operation was underway," authorities told media.

The effort to rescue the youngster from the borewell was carried out by a team from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), local law enforcement, and district administration staff in Kopardi village, Karjat tehsil, around 125 kilometres from Pune city. The youngster, the son of a sugarcane worker, may have accidentally fallen into the abandoned borewell while playing, according to the authorities.

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