Varanasi: Three youths including a female drowned in the Ganges near the Samne Ghat near the Lanka Police Station at around 1:30 AM on Saturday. Vaibhav Singh (21), Rishi (21) and Sona (19), residents of Bihar, had come here for a trip.
Police along with a team from the National Disaster Response Force (NRDF) recovered Vaibhav's body. Search for the two other bodies is underway.
Police said that Sona fell into the water while taking a selfie near the ghat. Seeing this, Rishi and Vaibhav jumped into the water to save her but drowned along with Sona because of the water's depth.
"They were on their way to Mughalsarai and had taken a halt here to enjoy the scenic beauty of the ghats. They came to the ghat at night and attempted to take a selfie.
The girl's foot slipped and she fell into the water following which her friends jumped to save her. We rushed to the spot and also alerted the NRDF. Divers are searching for Sona and Rishi's bodies," Lanka police station in-charge Shivakant Mishra said.
Police are questioning people who were there at the ghat at night to seek information about the three youths. Vaibhav, a resident of Chandmari Mohalla Motihari, Patna, was a student in LLB's first year. Rishi, too, hails from the same place. Sona was a second-year student of physiotherapy.
This is not the first time that such an incident has come to the fore. In May, three children, who had gone to take a bath in river Ganga at the Aakin Ghat area in Kanpur, drowned to death.
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