Two 22-year-old engineering students are feared to have drowned after they allegedly fell in Haiderpur canal in outer Delhi on Thursday morning, the police said. Divers failed to locate their bodies till Thursday evening.
The victims have been identified as Shekhar and Rajdeep, both final-year engineering students of of Delhi Technological University (DTU) at Shahbad Daulatpur. While Shekhar is a resident of Ghaziabad’s Vaishali, Rajdeep lives in east Delhi’s Laxmi Nagar.
Eyewitness account
A third student who was with Shekhar and Rajdeep at the time of the incident called the police at 6 a.m.
Teams from the police control room, the Delhi Fire Service and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) rushed to the spot and started rescue operations.
The third student said all three of them had packed food from Murthal and were eating it near the canal in Bawana. He said the victims had dipped their feet into the water when one of them suddenly fell in.
When he failed to surface after a few seconds, the other victim jumped in to save him.
When both of them failed to come up, the third student raised an alarm and called the police.
