Two youths missing in Gosainkunda found dead

Rasuwa: Two youths, who had gone missing during a holy bath in the Gosainkunda of Rasuwa district, have been found dead.

According to Chief of the District Police Office, Hem Bahadur Shahi, the deceased have been identified as Manoj Neupane, 28, of Belbari municipality-11 and Sujan Dhakal, 26, of Biratnagar municipality-3.

Both of them had gone missing in the pond in course of taking holy bath on Sunday and their bodies were pulled out from the pond today with the support of security personnel and local hotel entrepreneurs.

However, problem surfaced to airlift the bodies to Kathmandu for post-mortem after a helicopter failed to make a flight from Kathmandu due to adverse weather today, said police.

Police guessed that the youths might have died due to freezing cold in course of the bath in the pond located at 4,380 meters height from the sea level. It is suspected that both of them went missing after one of them fell into the pond and another tried to save him but in vain.

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