'Skipped college, drank beer, went for swim': 2 students drown in Mumbai quarry
Two college students drowned in a quarry in Mumbai after skipping classes to swim in an area known to be dangerous during the monsoon season. Local authorities retrieved the bodies and have registered the incident as an accidental death.
Why it matters
The incident serves as a warning regarding the dangers of swimming in abandoned quarries and the importance of public safety awareness in urban areas.
MUMBAI: Two of the four college students who had gone swimming at a quarry in Dahisar East drowned on Saturday. The bodies of Om Singh, 19, and Piyush Gupta, 18, were retrieved from the quarry by the fire brigade and local residents and taken to a hospital. Singh lived in Andheri, while Gupta was a resident of Kandivali. Police said Singh and Gupta, along with two classmates, Aman Giri, 17, and Divyesh Patel, 17, skipped college on Saturday and headed to Shaikh Khadaan Compound near Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Dahisar East. All four were first-year Commerce students at a degree college in Kandivali. One of the boys told police that they had consumed beer near the quarry before entering the water. None of them knew how to swim. At around 10.20 am, Singh and Gupta ventured into deeper water while their friends remained near the edge.
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