Patna, March 25 Two boys drowned in the Ganga in Patna, and one is missing after the three friends went to bathe in the river on Wednesday morning, police said.
The incident took place at a ghat in the Malsalami police station area in the state capital.
The deceased are residents of Patna's Kankarbagh police station area.
Malsalami SHO Raj Kumar Singh said, "Around 7 am, three boys went to bathe in the Ganga near the barricade but slipped into the deep waters. Two of them, identified as Ganesh Kumar and Rohit Kumar, both aged 18, were located and taken out of the river and rushed to Nalanda Medical College Hospital (NMCH), where doctors pronounced them dead."
Police, along with the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), are actively searching for the third boy, identified as Shibu Kumar, he added.