Bathing in a canal to beat the summer heat proved fatal for a young man on Tuesday. Twenty year old Sharif drowned when he was taking a dip in the Bahadrabad canal. It is being stated that four of his companions were also bathing in the canal, but Sharif went deep towards the swifter flow which carried him away.
Other people bathing in the canal informed the police. Apart from informing his family members, the police also began searching for Sharif though they had not succeeded till the time of this report being filed. Bahadrabad police station officer Govind Kumar told informed that the youth from Imlikheda came to the canal with his cousin when the incident occurred. The water police had begun search for his body on being informed about the incident.
