The Armed Police Force Disaster Management Training Center at Kurintar had fielded four rescue teams to search for the missing youths. However, the rescue teams were clueless about the whereabouts of the missing till Monday evening.
The five youths, including three siblings of same family who were said to have jumped into the Trishuli River for swimming, remain missing since Saturday afternoon.
SSP Durga Bahadur Kunwar, commandant at the training center, informed that the rescue teams include trained divers, a motor boat, a dingy as well as police personnel operating on foot. “We have been searching for them continuously for the last two days but to no avail,” said Kunwar.
DSP Dipendra Giri said that over six dozen security personnel well-equipped for the purpose have been deployed in for the search but they have yet to succeed in the mission due to high and murky waters following continuous rains.
Three daugthers -- Monica, Rajani, and Liza -- of Sri Krishna Regmi of Krishnapur in Bharatpur; Asmita Thapa of Dharmachowk; and Janak Raut of Belchowk Narayangadh were swept away by the river from near the Riverside Resort at Kurintar.
Every day, the grief-stricken family members of the missing youths return with heavy heart after spending the day on the river bank searching for their children.
“It has already been three days since they went missing. We have little hope of finding them alive. And we cannot perform their last rites until we find the bodies,” said Suman Regmi, the uncle of the missing Regmi sisters. Sri Krishna Regmi is now left with only one child, son Prashanta, who did not enter the river on that fateful day.
According to police, the river is very deep and flows in swift current, which has swept way 8 people in the last two weeks.
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