Newsroom, Sept 5: A 23-year-old man from Sindhanur in Karnataka’s Raichur district met watery grave at Turner falls in the United States on the evening of September 3.
The victim, Ajay Kumar, was pursuing M Tech at the University of Texas. The incident occurred when Kumar rushed to rescue his friend Kaushik, a resident of Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, who also died in the incident.
The body is likely to reach Sindhanur on September 6. He was the only son of Srinivas, a farmer-cum-contractor.
Kumar completed high school at Sindhanur, PUC at Ballari and engineering degree in Bengaluru. He had left for the USA a year ago for post-graduation. Kumar's sister stays in the US and her husband is a software engineer there. Kumar and Kaushik had gone to the falls for an excursion.
Kaushik entered the water and began drowning. Kumar entered the water, held Kaushik's hand and attempted to pull him up. However, the duo was washed away. The bodies were retrieved after a search operation for about an hour.
The 77 feet Turner Falls is Oklahoma's tallest waterfall on Honey Creek in the Arbuckle Mountains.
On March 28, a Sindhanur doctor died under mysterious circumstances at his hospital campus at New Jersey, USA. Nandigam Manideep (28), a resident of Gandhinagar village in Sindhanur taluk, was a final year post-graduation student at Saint Peter’s University Hospital.
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