Surat boy drowns in Australia’s national park
TNN | Feb 8, 2019, 04:00 IST
Surat: A 20-year-old student from Surat who went to Australia to study engineering drowned in Sydney National Park on January 29. His body was brought back to Surat on February 5 and was cremated on Thursday.
The deceased Sahil Rajesh Kathiriya was a first year Information Technology (IT) student. He had gone to Australia 11 months ago.
His father Rajesh Kathiriya has a construction business in Surat and lives at Koteswar Nagar in Katargam.
According to Surat MP Darshana Jardosh, who had facilitated in bringing back Sahil’s body, said that the boy had gone with his friends to Royal National Park south of Sydney where he drowned in a popular swimming hole. The local police there was also not sure how Sahil drowned.
Reports stated that Sahil’s his last rites were performed on Thursday. Sources close to family that Sahil was planning to study civil engineering also so that he could help in their family business.
Kathiriya family is originally from Sarsiya village of Amreli.
Jardosh said, “I contacted the foreign affairs ministry on January 30 and got Sahil’s body transferred to the local guardian who sent the body to Surat in few days.”
The deceased Sahil Rajesh Kathiriya was a first year Information Technology (IT) student. He had gone to Australia 11 months ago.
His father Rajesh Kathiriya has a construction business in Surat and lives at Koteswar Nagar in Katargam.
According to Surat MP Darshana Jardosh, who had facilitated in bringing back Sahil’s body, said that the boy had gone with his friends to Royal National Park south of Sydney where he drowned in a popular swimming hole. The local police there was also not sure how Sahil drowned.
Reports stated that Sahil’s his last rites were performed on Thursday. Sources close to family that Sahil was planning to study civil engineering also so that he could help in their family business.
Kathiriya family is originally from Sarsiya village of Amreli.
Jardosh said, “I contacted the foreign affairs ministry on January 30 and got Sahil’s body transferred to the local guardian who sent the body to Surat in few days.”
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