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20-yr-old youth drowns in Rajasthan

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Press Trust of India Bundi (Raj)
A 20-year-old youth from Kota today drowned in Barda Dam here.

Gopi alias Gurpreet Singh, a resident of Ridhi in Sidhi Nagar area of Kota city, drowned while taking a bathe and fell into the deep waters of the dam, a popular picnic spot of the area, SHO, Talera police station, Bhagwati Prasad said.

The body was recovered late in the evening about 20 meters away from the spot after a joint rescue operation by police and Kota Municipal Corporation, and was handed over to his family members after they refused for a postmortem of the deceased, he added.

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First Published: Aug 26 2016 | 8:22 PM IST

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