Divers have recovered the body of a young man who went missing after drowning in an irrigation dam in Ghorahi Sub-metropolitan City, Dang.
Twenty-three-year-old Anup Chaudhary of Belghar, Ghorahi-12, had been missing since Thursday afternoon after he entered the irrigation dam in Arghu, Ghorahi-10, to swim.
A seven-member team of specially trained divers from the Provincial Disaster Management Team of the Armed Police Force (APF), Nepal, No. 42 Reserve Battalion Headquarters, Shumshergunj, Banke, arrived at the site under the command of APF Inspector Ashish Rawat. The team subsequently recovered Chaudhary's body from the dam.
According to Police Inspector Gagan Shahi, chief of the Area Police Office, Narayanpur, the APF divers found Chaudhary's body buried in mud beneath approximately 30 feet of water at around 11:30 a.m. on Friday.
Inspector Shahi said that Chaudhary had arrived at his maternal uncle's house just a day earlier. On Thursday afternoon, he and six friends reportedly consumed alcohol before jumping into the dam to swim.
While six of them managed to swim to safety, Chaudhary drowned after reaching the middle of the dam and went missing. His body was recovered on Friday.
On Thursday, a joint search operation involving the Nepal Army, Nepal Police, and Armed Police Force, along with local residents, was launched to find Chaudhary. However, the search was unsuccessful.
Inspector Shahi said that the body has now been recovered and police are preparing the necessary documentation at the site.
