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21-year-old IIT Roorkee student drowns in Ganga river; moments before incident caught on camera

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An IIT Roorkee student drowned in the Ganges river in Haridwar on February 12. The student, who was bathing in the river, hailed from Rajasthan's Nahaur and came to Haridwar with other students and a professor for a project, police officials said. While taking a bath in the river, Siddharth was caught in the swift currents and swept away, the SHO of Shyampur police station told PTI.