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Youth drowned during river rafting in Rishikesh

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Press Trust of India Dehradun
A 20-year-old youth, who was on a rafting adventure with his friends, today drowned after his raft flipped in Ganga river at Vyasi near Rishikesh.

Prashant Pandey, a Jet Airways employee in New Delhi, was rafting with six others when their boat flipped in the river, police said.

The rafting guide who was with the team pulled out all the seven from the water but Prashant, a native of Betia in Bihar, had died by that time, police said.

On Friday, a 32-year-old tourist from Argentina had drowned in the river during rafting at Vyasi.

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First Published: Mar 17 2013 | 5:55 PM IST

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