24-year-old youth from Karaya drowns while bathing in Digha

Kolkata: A 24-year-old youth from Karaya in Kolkata drowned while bathing in Digha. His body was recovered on Wednesday morning.

Police said the victim, Azhar Ali, was a resident of Karaya. He went to Digha with six other friends on Tuesday.

He drowned while bathing on Tuesday. His friends sought help of the police. Policemen from Digha police station initiated a search. They found the body in Old Digha on Wednesday morning. The body was sent for an autopsy. Police are trying to find out how he drowned.

In another incident at Regent Park in Kolkata, a class XII student, Sanjay Saha, drowned while bathing in a pond.

Locals informed police that he went missing. Police searched all the places in the area. They finally searched the pond and fished out his body. Police sent the body for an autopsy and initiated a probe in this connection. He was a resident of Anandapalli at Regent Park and the incident took place in a pond close to his house.