‘Selfie turns deadly’: Engineer dives into Odisha reservoir to determine cellular telephone, dies

Clicking a selfie shut to a dam in Odisha’s Boudh district proved deadly for a 22-twelve months-archaic engineer from Tamil Nadu. The youth drowned as he dived into the reservoir to salvage his cell cellular telephone that had dropped from his hand.

Mukundan R, an engineer working with Salunki mega decide irrigation venture in Boudh district, had lengthy earlier to Palajhar dam constructed throughout river Salunki on Sunday evening to find out on out a bathe alongside alongside together with his two colleagues. The three have been clicking selfies there when Mukundan’s cell cellular telephone accidentally slipped from his hand and fell into the water.

Boudh Superintendent of Police V Jagannath Rao talked about Mukundan jumped into water to salvage his cellular telephone. “When he did not return, even handed one in all his buddies too jumped however turned into as quickly as about to be washed away when a fisherman rescued him. Mukundan, nonetheless, may additionally now not be traced following which Boudh fireplace companies and merchandise personnel have been alerted,” talked about Rao.

Fireplace personnel and an Odisha Hassle Like a flash Slither Pressure (ODRAF) group reached the sphere and carried out a search operation. They continued their search until Sunday evening however may additionally now not fetch Mukundan. On Monday, when the operation turned into as quickly as resumed, the physique of the deceased engineer turned into as quickly as stumbled on 1 kilometre from the sphere of the incidence.

Closing month, two boys from Bargarh district died after slipping into the Kapildhar waterfalls at Nrusinghanath. Khirod Soni, 20, and Bijaya Mahakud, 18, of Jhitiki village had lengthy earlier to Nrusinghanath on a motorcycle and climbed as rather a lot as the pinnacle of the waterfall. Whereas they have been clicking images up there, Khirod and Bijaya slipped from a rock, the police talked about.