Damodar drowning: 1 body found, 2 missing

Bokaro: The body of one of the Bokaro three students, who drowned in Damodar river near Bhatua Basti under Harla police station on Sunday, was recovered on Monday after a massive search operation by a joint team of district police and the NDRF.
The deceased was identified as Harsh Raj who hailed from Sector-3 in Bokaro. His body was found 6km away from Bhatua Basti.
The other two bodies – that of Shubham Kumar Mishra and Basant Kumar -- are yet to be found. “A 17-member team of NDRF personnel, who had come down from Ranchi, conducted a massive search operation along a 17-km stretch of the river till the West Bengal border but failed to trace the two bodies. The search operation will be continue on Tuesday and the NDRF team will camp here tonight,” district disaster officer Shakti Kumar said.
All three were Class XI students of MGM Higher Secondary school. On Sunday, they got washed away in the river in Bhatua Basti near Sector-11 under Harla police station. There were nine students who had gone to take bath in the river. All of them left home saying that they were going for tuition and a cricket match later.