Tourist goes missing while taking bath at sea beach

Puri: In a tragic incident, a tourist has gone missing while taking bathe at the sea beach in Puri of Odisha on Satruday. He has suspected to have drowned. The incident took place in the Sector 9 area of Puri sea beach.

The missing tourist has been identified as Vikash Chande from Hyderabad.

As per reports, Vikash had come to Puri along with his family. Today he went to Puri sea beach along with his family. When he was taking bath he went missing near the lighthouse this afternoon.

Within no time Life Guard and the fire officers started an operation to trace out and rescue the tourist.

However, despite extensive searches by the lifeguards and fire department, the missing youth is yet to be traced. By the time this report was written, the search operation was underway.