Summary:
Allahabad: Jal Police and local divers fished out a man’s body who had drowned in Ganga at Sirsa ghat, under Handia police station, on Thursday.The deceased, Virendra Kumar Bharatiya (27), and his brother-in-law Monu drowned in the river when they had gone for swimming on Wednesday afternoon. Rescue teams managed to fish out Monu’s body on Wednesday.Sirsa police outpost in charge Rakesh Rai said that joint teams of National Disaster Response Force, Jal Police and local divers started search operations around 5 am on Thursday and the body was recovered around 2pm. Both the bodies have been sent for postmortem examination..