India News | JEE Aspirant from Bareilly Drowns at Waterfall Near Kota

Kota, Jul 16 (PTI) A 19-year-old JEE aspirant from Bareilly died after being washed away at the Bhimlat waterfall near Kota city Wednesday morning, police said.

Mohammed Mujeeb Saifi had come to the waterfall with four of his friends – also JEE aspirants — to catch the sunrise and have a bath.

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The five had ridden for around 70 km to Bundi on a scooter and a motorcycle and used Google Maps to locate the waterfall, Bundi Sadar Circle Inspector Ramesh Arya said.

The five reached the waterfall around 5 am and started bathing. Around 7.30 am, a desperate lunge to catch his shirt flowing away in the already gushing water proved Saifi costly, when he was swept away under strong currents.

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The State Disaster Response Force mounted a search for him and fished out his body five hours later from deep inside the water, stuck in rocks, Arya said.

Saifi had been preparing for the engineering entrance for the last two years and living in a hostel in Kota.

Police said his parents had been informed, and they were on the way to Kota.

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