India, June 10 -- A 26-year-old woman from Assam was found dead on the banks of the Ganga river in Rishikesh on Tuesday, four days after she went missing from a riverside camping site 8km upstream, a police official said.

The woman had travelled to Delhi from Assam to appear in a Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) exam on June 5. The following morning, she came to Rishikesh with two friends for riverside camping. She went missing a few hours later.

The two male friends reported her disappearance to the police the same day. A local resident told the police that she saw a woman drowning in the river.

The authorities subsequently requisitioned State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) personnel and Jal Police divers to search for the woman.

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