Odisha Reporter Dies After Boat Engaged In Elephant Rescue Ops Overturns
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Arindam Das along with Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force personnel and a camera journalist had boarded the powerboat which overturned due to the strong current in the river, the police said.
Odisha's popular television journalist Arindam Das Friday died when an ODRAF power boat engaged in the rescue of an elephant in Mahanadi river capsized at Mundali barrage near Cuttack, police said.
He along with Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force personnel and a camera journalist had boarded the powerboat which overturned due to the strong current in the river, the police said.
He along with other journalists and three ODRAF personnel were fished out of the water in a critical state and rushed to SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack.
"Arindam was received dead. We tried to revive him for over an hour," SCB superintendent Bhubananda Moharana told reporters.
