Nashik (Maharashtra): In an unfortunate incident, a 25-year-old engineer drowned in the Ozarkhed dam in Nashik after he went to swim in the water, police said today.
As per sources, the victim, Mohamed Momin Sarvar, hailing from Odisha and working as an engineer with a local automobile company, yesterday had gone for a picnic near the dam along with his friends.
Later, they all went for swimming in the dam, but Sarvar somehow got swept away by the current in the water.
His friends later fished him out of the water and rushed him to hospital where doctors declared him dead, an official at Vani police station said.
The body was sent for postmortem, the official said, adding that a case of accidental death was registered.