Red Flags Up On Puri Beach After Tourist Deaths

Puri: The Puri district administration on Friday put up red flags warning in Sector-13 near Swargadwar to prevent further mishaps on the occasion of Chandra Yatra after four tourists died in the sea in a span of two days.

Reportedly, the administration has placed red flags in a bid to restrict people from going to accident-prone areas in the sea. The preventive step came four tourists drowned while taking a bath in the sea in two days.

Worth mentioning that two tourists from West Bengal drowned while taking a bath in the water on Thursday in yet another accident at the same Sector 13 in Puri, close to Swargadwar.

Arindam Das has been named as one of the deceased, however, the second deceased individual is yet to be identified. It is understood that both of the deceased were residents of West Bengal’s Hooghly area.

Two other West Bengal visitors perished earlier on May 3, at the same Sector 13 beachfront, close to Swargadwar.

Ranjan Das and his son, who lived in the Howrah area were named as the deceased. Ranjan, his son, and three other people were taking a saltwater bath when a powerful tide came in and carried away three of them. One of them was saved by the lifeguards, but the father and son pair could not be saved.

Their bodies later washed up on the coast. Their bodies were quickly fished out and rushed to the Puri district headquarters hospital (DHH) where they were declared brought dead by the doctors.