16-year-old drowns, two others rescued from Tapi river

SURAT: A 16-year-old boy drowned in the Tapi river at weir-cum-causeway when he had gone a swim with his two other friends on Saturday morning.
Sources in the fire and emergency department of Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) said that three teenagers had gone for a swim at the weir-cum-causeway at Singanpore at about 9am.
The boys Kalpesh Upadhyay (160, Satyam Shah (12) and Ravi Upadhyay (16)—all resident of Anand Park society in Ved Road— got carried away by the strong current of the river and started crying for help.
People present on the embankment immediately dived into the water and rescued two boys — Satyam and Ravi, while the Kalpesh went missing. The residents immediately contacted the fire department.
Body of Kalpesh was later fished out by the firefighters from the river and shifted to the SMIMER hospital where he was declared dead on admission.
SD Dhobhi, fire officer of Rander fire station told TOI, “When we reached the spot, two boys were already rescued by the locals. We began searching for the missing boy and found his body in deep waters in the causeway.”
Dhobhi added, “The weir-cum-causeway is the favourite spot for the people for swimming. The victims were not the expert swimmers, but still, they dived into the river whose depth is 30 feet at the causeway.