Guwahati, July 18: Two students of Dibrugarh University in Upper Assam have gone missing while taking a dip in the Siang River at Pasighat in Arunachal Pradesh on Sunday.
According to reports, five students who had gone to the Siang River in the Raneghat area were taking bath in the river when the mishap took place. However, three of them managed to swim to the shore.
Rescue teams from Assam and Arunachal Pradesh resumed operations to trace the two missing students – Prasiddha Handique and Subhadeep Paul – on Monday morning even as the duo could not be located till evening.
Prasiddha hails from the Chiring Chapori locality of Dibrugarh and is a PGDCA last semester student, while Subhadeep, who is from Gohpur, is a BCA sixth semester student of Dibrugarh University.
In another similar mishap, a college student identified as Dhiraj Deka went missing on Sunday afternoon while taking a bath in the Brahmaputra near Raj Bhavan here, even as State Disaster Response Force teams are continuing search operations that were launched on Sunday afternoon but had to be halted later after darkness set in.
Dhiraj, a student of Lalit Chandra Bharali College and a resident of Silpukhuri here, had gone to the riverside along with a group of friends.
According to reports, he went missing from a spot where the river current was apparently very high.
