Sikkim/Gangtok, Oct. 28: Two third-year engineering students from Assam, out for a swim in the Teesta that flows near the Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology campus, died after being swept away by a strong current this afternoon.
Police said Kuntal Kashyap from Jorhat and Imanjal Gohain from Guwahati, had gone swimming along with their friends around 3pm near their institute campus at Majitar.
They were washed away for about 10-15 metres downstream by the river before alarmed friends and local people pulled them to the bank and rushed them to the nearest hospital at Singtam, where they were declared dead on arrival.
Kuntal, an only child, had passed HSLC in 2006 and CBSE from Kendriya Vidyalaya ONGC in 2008, before joining the institute for a degree in electronics and telecommunications. His father, Girin Das, an official of the department of industry and commerce, is posted at Nagaon, while mother Bino Devi, is a United Bank of India employee.
Debashish Bharali, Kuntal’s cousin, told The Telegraph this evening that parents of one of Kuntal’s classmates told them that he had met with an “accident and was serious”. “When our aunt (Kuntal’s mother) arrived from the bank, they said that they had received a phone call saying Kuntal was dead,” Bharali said. Kuntal’s mother fainted and had to be administered medicines.
Bharali said they were told that four students had gone to the riverside (Teesta) to click photographs when suddenly two of them fell into the river.
Guwahati resident Imanjal Gohain is the son of Sushil Buragohain, who retired last December as professor and head of the department of livestock production and management, College of Veterinary College, Guwahati.
On July 24, two students from the institute had drowned in the river.
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