Last Updated on 12/08/2024 by Arun jain
Two Kanwariyas died due to drowning in the Galta Kund pilgrimage site on Sawan Monday in Jaipur, Rajasthan. The deceased were cousins who had come to Galtaji with their friends to take Kanwar and jumped into the Kund to take a bath. But due to the rising water level in heavy rain, both of them drowned. After this, the Civil Defense personnel conducted a search operation in the Kund and after hours, the bodies of both were taken out and kept in the mortuary of the hospital.
The incident took place at Galtaji Kund on Monday afternoon at around 1 pm, when three friends reached the pilgrimage site to take Kanwar. During this, seeing their fellow devotees bathing on the stairs of Galtaji, they ran and jumped straight into the Janana Kund. Although, the people present there in the heavy rain also stopped them, but still both the youths jumped. Then after a while, both were seen drowning together, and people could not save them even after trying.
SI Giriraj of Galtagate police station said that the deceased are 20-year-old Sonu Koli and 23-year-old Rahul Koli, residents of Sawai Madhopur, who were cousins. The bodies of both have been taken out of the water by the civil defense team and kept in the mortuary of Sawai Man Singh Hospital for postmortem.
Source (PTI) (NDTV) (HINDUSTANTIMES)