JAJPUR: A boy drowned in river Kharasrota near Mirzapur ghat under Kuakhia police limits in Jajpur district while taking part in the immersion ceremony of Ganesh idol on Wednesday morning.
He is Soumyaprasanna Nath, a Class IX student of Madhuban High School in Mirzapur.
According to police, Soumyaprasanna had gone to the river ghat with other students of his school for immersion of the Ganesh
idol. When he entered the river, Soumyaprasanna got carried away by the water current and drowned. Receiving information, fire fighters rushed to the spot and started search operation. They later recovered the body and handed it over to police for postmortem.