Rishikesh: Three tourists from Gujarat were washed away in the Ganges while taking a bath in Muni Ki Reti area, one woman’s dead body found

Rishikesh : Three tourists from Gujarat were washed away while taking a bath in Phoolchatti at the confluence of Ganga and Henvalandi under Laxmanjhula police station area. The police launched a search operation in search of the missing tourists in the water, but without success.

Laxmanjhula SHO Virendra Ramola told that six members of a family from Gujarat had come to visit the Neelkanth temple. He told that all these people went for a walk towards Phoolchatti at the confluence of the Ganges and Hanwal rivers. During this, Sonal (18) daughter of Anilbhai resident of Prem Colony, Gandhigram police station, Rajkot Gujraj’s foot slipped. Anilbhai (42) son of Dhirubhai and Taruven (52) wife of Ramesh Pati, resident of Prem Colony, Gandhigram police station, Rajkot Gujraj also got washed away in the strong current of Ganga.

On information, the police launched a search operation, but they could not be traced. Officer told that due to darkness, the rescue will continue on Tuesday also. Around 4:20 pm, they came to Phoolchatti Pauli from Rajkot, Gujarat to visit Rishikesh, meanwhile some members went to the Ganges river to take a bath, while taking bath, 3 members came under the strong current of the river Ganges, this information was found by the Jal Police stationed at Neem Beach Tapovan. A campaign was carried out in which search was done through rafts and after a lot of effort, one woman was taken out of the river Ganga and sent to the government hospital through 108 ambulance.

Where the woman was declared dead by the doctors. The body was handed over to the Lajmanjhula police station, named as Taruben Ramesh Pati wife of Ramesh Pati, age 52, residence of Gaya Rajkot, Gujarat, the search work has been done by the employees of Jal Police of Muniki Reti district Tehri Garhwal.