Greater Noida, Sept. 9 -- A 17-year-old boy who drowned while bathing in the Yamuna River in Greater Noida's Rabupura area was found dead on Sunday evening after a 29-hour search operation, police said on Monday.

The deceased, a resident of Mehandipur village in Rabupura, had gone to the river on Saturday evening with three friends, aged between 15 and 18, police said. All four entered the water using inflated tubes.

"They all used swim ring to bathe in the river. While bathing, they reached deeper water where the Yamuna's flow was strong, and they lost balance," said Sujeet Kumar Upadhyay, station house officer (SHO) of Rabupura. "The deceased's three friends somehow managed to save themselves, but he got stuck and drowned," he added....