Two California males drown whereas swimming in Colorado River

Two California males drowned whereas swimming within the Colorado River close to the California-Arizona border over the weekend, authorities stated.

The lethal accident was first reported about 2:15 p.m. Sunday on the river close to the unincorporated Mohave County, Arizona neighborhood of Topock, in accordance with the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office.

“The reporting party indicated that they had been flagged down by another boat and told that two men had gone underwater and had not resurfaced at a beach area near the Topock Gorge,” sheriff’s officers stated in a written statement.

It was later decided that the 2 victims had been touring in a rental pontoon with three others when the group parked the boat on a riverside seashore and determined to go for a swim to chill off, officers stated.

Three of them “slipped underwater and began to struggle,” in accordance with the assertion. One made it again to shallow water, however two didn’t resurface.

Divers from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department and the Mojave County Sheriff’s Office despatched divers into the water to seek for the lacking males.

“The two victims had been underwater for approximately 20 minutes when divers arrived on scene and were located in approximately 12 feet of water,” the assertion stated.

Both males had been taken to the Colorado River Medical Center in Needles, the place they had been in the end pronounced useless.

San Bernardino County coroner’s officers recognized them as Anoop Gankidi, 31, of Montclair, and Venkata Mukkaala, 32, of Milpitas. Their manners of dying had been listed as unintentional.

The circumstances of the drownings remained underneath investigation; nonetheless, impairment was not suspected to have performed a task, sheriff’s officers stated.