The bodies were sent to a nearby hospital for autopsy (performance)
Palghar:
On Thursday afternoon, five men drowned in a swimming pool at the bottom of a waterfall in the Jawhar district of Palghar district of Maharashtra, police said.
A group of 13 people went to the Kalmandvi waterfalls near the town of Jawhar despite the lockout, said a local police official.
Two of them fell into the water by clicking on selfies and others jumped to save them. Five of them drowned, he said.
A team from the National Disaster Assistance Response Force (NDRF) was rushed to the scene.
The bodies were sent to a nearby hospital for an autopsy.
The victims have been identified as Nimesh Patel (30), Jay Bhoir (21), Prathamesh Chavan (18), Devendra Wagh (24) and Devendra Faltankar (21).
Earlier, a local police official said that the victims, who had not yet been identified, were “children”.
