Shimla, Jul 21 (PTI) A 26-year-old man drowned while bathing in a rivulet in Himachal Pradesh's Hamirpur district on Wednesday, police said.

Aman Bharmera, a resident of ward number eight in Naya Nagar, had gone to bathe in Kunah stream in Jangle Ropa village with his friends on Wednesday afternoon, a police official said.

He drowned as water level suddenly increased, he added.

His body has been sent for postmortem.

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