Overview

• On Monday evening in Saharanpur’s Nawabganj area, four friends—Zubair (34), Kaleem (35), Adnan (20) and Saqib (22)—stepped into the Eastern Yamuna Canal to bathe and were swept away by strong currents.
• Around 9 am on Tuesday in Sherpur Sarai village, Farrukhabad, 17-year-old Arun and his 12-year-old cousin Sagar drowned in the Ganga river after Arun dove in to save his cousin.
• Local divers mounted hours-long search operations to retrieve all six bodies from the water, with Saharanpur families declining post-mortems and Farrukhabad authorities completing legal procedures before examinations.
• Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath issued condolences to the bereaved families following the Saharanpur incident.
• The back-to-back tragedies highlight persistent risks at unprotected riverbanks and canals where strong currents endanger swimmers.