INDORE: The bodies of five young probationary officers of the State Bank of India (SBI) and a canteen boy at the SBI's regional training centre were fished out of the Narmada river from the tourist-town of Maheshwar, some 125 kms from here on Monday.
The six youths who were on a weekend trip to Maheshwar drowned after their boat capsized on Sunday night.
Eight of them managed to swim back safely.
The deceased were identified as Jitendra Singh Yadav, 23, son of SS Yadav, resident of Kanpur, Vijay Shyam Sharma, 23, son of SB Sharma, resident of Ahmedabad,
Vishal Singh, 22, son of Devi Singh, resident of Bareli, T K Premkiran, 25, son of T K Kanjuppa, resident of Ernakulam and Saurabh Mohan, 22, son of O M Mohan, resident of Pathanamthitta and Javed Khan alias Ilu, 21, son of Riyasat Ali Khan, resident of Pratapgarh in UP. Khan was working as a canteen boy with the SBI training centre.
All the deceased were in their last leg of training and were supposed to join the SBI branches in their respective cities after May 5. Vijay, Shyam, Vishal and Jitendra were supposed to join SBI Ahmedabad circle, while remaining two Saurabh Mohan, and T K Prem Kiran were set to join Kerala circle of the bank after the training.
The mishap occurred at around 7.15 pm on Sunday while the officers who were on the boat tried to take a photograph from the moving boat that lost its balanced and capsized. Eight people on the boat swam to safety while efforts were made to locate the others.
However, the divers had to abandon rescue operations during the night hours.