Shopkeeper Jumps Into River

Champua: The incident of a shopkeeper jumping into the Baitarani river has been reported on Tuesday. The shopkeeper jumped into the Baitarani river from a bridge in Champua and lost his life. The deceased has been identified as Basant Patra. According to reports, the shopkeeper jumped into the river after parking his scooter on the bridge. It is not yet known why he lost his life. Later the body of the shopkeeper was found floating in the river, the police reached the spot and started investigating the matter.

Recently a month ago, a youth jumped into the river in Dhenkanal district of Odisha. The youth jumped into the Bramhani River from the Baji Rout Bridge under Bhuban Police Station limts.

The missing youth had been identified as 25 year old Parshuram Kamar. As per reports, Parshuram was living in his maternal uncle’s house. One evening he was coming to his house from the maternal uncle’s house along with his father. While the father and son were crossing the Baji Rout Bridge the son suddenly got down from the bicycle and jumped into the river.

Soon, the fire services department were called and within no time the fire services personnel reached the spot. They initiated a search operation. However, despite launching of a fanatic search the youth could not be traced out. Due to darkness the search operation could not be carried on. Hence, they had to stop the operation.

The next morning, the fire services personnel started the search operation and the missing youth had was traced out.