Two medical students drown

Two medical students drown

TNN | Aug 17, 2021, 04.32 AM IST

Rajkot: Two students of Rajkot’s PDU Medical College drowned in a check-dam on the outskirts of the city late on Saturday evening. The deceased were identified as Dr Chirag Damor (30), a final year student of Doctor of Medicine (MD) and Ravi Rathod (26), an MBBS student.

Damor’s parents who live in Ahmedabad are native of Shyamlaji in North Gujarat, while Rathod is from Ghumli village in Maliya-Hatina taluka of Junagadh.

Damor and Rathod had gone to the check-dam on a bike. They both jumped into the water and later drowned. A passers-by saw the bike and clothes and informed the fire brigade personnel. “Fire brigade personnel fished out both bodies from the check-dam after searching for an hour,” said police.

Rathod was the youngest of four siblings.