India News | 18-year-old Student from Delhi Drowns in Mansi Ganga Kund in UP's Mathura

Mathura (UP), Aug 28 (PTI) A 18-year-old student from Delhi drowned while taking a holy dip in Mansi Ganga Kund in Govardhan here on Sunday, police said.

Tarun, the deceased, was on a tour of Govardhan as part of a group of 48 students of a coaching centre in Delhi's Mangolpuri.

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They arrived in the holy town in Uttar Pradesh Saturday evening.

After a visit to the Mukut Mukhabindu Temple Sunday morning, they arrive at the Mansi Ganga Kund, a sacred lake. While bathing, three of the students went deep into the water.

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Local residents managed to save two of them but Tarun drowned. Divers brought him out of water and he was taken to a community health centre where doctors declared him dead on arrival, police said.

Govardhan Police Station SHO Nitin Kasana said the body of the deceased has been sent for post-mortem and his family members have been informed about it.

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