{"id":276591,"date":"2026-01-17T00:24:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T18:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=276591"},"modified":"2026-01-17T00:25:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T18:55:40","slug":"two-tourists-drown-in-sela-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/17\/two-tourists-drown-in-sela-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Two tourists drown in Sela Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>[Bengia Ajum]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>TAWANG, 16 Jan:<\/strong> In a tragic accident, two persons drowned on Friday afternoon in Sela Lake in Tawang district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The body of one of the deceased, identified as 26-year-old B Prakash, has been retrieved, while the body of the other drowned person, identified as 24-year-old Madhav M, could not be recovered due to darkness. Both victims were from Kerala.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The incident occurred when a group of tourists was walking on the frozen Sela Lake. Suddenly, the ice broke, and two of them drowned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking to this daily, Tawang SP DW Thongon informed that efforts to retrieve the body of the other drowned tourist will resume on Saturday morning. &#8220;Today, the rescue operation had to be called off due to darkness. However, tomorrow we will resume the operation to retrieve the other body at 8 am with the help of the Army, SSB, and SDRF,&#8221; said the SP.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The duo was part of a seven-member tourist group from Kerala who were on their way to Tawang on vacation. &#8220;They had booked a mini bus and were travelling together. They had started their journey from Guwahati. At Sela, they stopped for sightseeing, during which the tragic incident took place,&#8221; added SP Thongon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, the SP urged visiting tourists to follow the advisory issued by the district administration while visiting Tawang at this time of the year. &#8220;Signboards have been installed at Sela and Shungatser, clearly warning tourists not to enter the frozen lake. Tourists should strictly follow all advisories for their own safety,&#8221; the SP said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Bengia Ajum] TAWANG, 16 Jan: In a tragic accident, two persons drowned on Friday afternoon in Sela Lake in Tawang district. The body of one of the deceased, identified as 26-year-old B Prakash, has been retrieved, while the body of the other drowned person, identified as 24-year-old Madhav M, could not be recovered due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[390,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-276591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bengia-ajum","8":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}