Two youths gone for cremation drown in Rapti river

Ranjha: Two youths gone for cremation in the Rapti river of Banke district drowned while swimming.

A spokesperson at the District Police Office, Banke, Deputy Superintendent of Police Madhu Sudan Neupane, said that Tribal Shahi, 18, and Lekraj Chantel, of Simikot-8 of Humla district, currently living at Dhamboji of Nepalgunj-1 in a rented house, were found dead in the river this morning.

Neupane shared that both of them had gone for the cremation of their landlord on Wednesday and a search for them was carried out after they did not return home till 6:00 pm. Their clothes and a mobile set were found at the river bank.

Police suspected that they went missing in the river in course of swimming. A police team deployed for a search operation on Thursday morning had recovered their bodies from Sidhaniyaghat of Duduwa rural municipality-4. Both of them had attended this year’s grade 12 examination from Dhamboji secondary school. —