gurugram man drowns while bathing in canal
India, Aug. 1 -- A 32-year-old man drowned while taking a bath in the overflowing canal near Dhankot in Gurugram district, police said on Thursday.
Police identified the victim as Kharak Singh, a resident of Ashok Vihar Phase 3 in Gurugram. He worked as a delivery executive, they said.
The incident took place between 5 and 5.30pm on Wednesday but the body was fished out after nearly 18 hours of search operation and four kilometres away from the spot where he drowned.
Gurugram police public relations officer, Sandeep Kumar, said Singh had reached the canal with two people on Wednesday evening, one of whom was his nephew. "They had consumed liquor on the embankment and had stepped into the canal to bathe. Singh went too deep and slipped and d...
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