The bodies of three persons who went missing after bathing in a waterfall in Chhattisgarh's Korea district were fished out on August 29, taking the death toll in the incident to six, officials said.
All the deceased were part of a group of 15 members of an extended family from Madhya Pradesh, who had on Sunday gone for a picnicto Ramdaha waterfall under Kotadol police station limits, located more than 300KM from the State capital Raipur.
Officials on Sunday received the information that seven people had gone missing while bathing in the plunge pool of the waterfall.
Initially, two of the seven persons were traced by rescuers and shifted to hospital. One of them was declared dead at the hospital while other person was out of danger, a police official earlier said. Two more bodies were also traced on Sunday.
The search operation, involving personnel of the State Disaster Response Force, Home Guard, police and local divers, was halted on Sunday night. The operation resumed on Monday morning and bodies of the remaining three missing tourists were traced, Korea Collector Kuldeep Sharma told PTI.
“The deceased were identified as Shweta Singh (22), Shraddha Singh (14) and Abhay Singh (22),” he said.
The bodies were sent for a post-mortem and will later be handed over to their relatives, he added. Despite a caution board placed at the spot requesting people not to bathe in the waterfall, the tourists went into the deep waters, a police official said.
