{"id":282244,"date":"2026-05-05T01:34:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=282244"},"modified":"2026-05-05T01:34:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:04:48","slug":"itbp-jawans-son-feared-drowned-in-river-while-picnicking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/itbp-jawans-son-feared-drowned-in-river-while-picnicking\/","title":{"rendered":"ITBP jawan&#8217;s son feared drowned in river while picnicking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 4 May:<\/strong> The 17-year-old son of an ITBP jawan was swept away in the Yomgo River in West Siang district on Sunday while picnicking near the water body, police said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A search has been launched but he is yet to be traced, with rescuers fearing he might have drowned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The incident took place on Sunday afternoon when a group of 10 minors went for a picnic near Bene, Sub-Inspector Manthan Chithan of the Aalo police station said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The teenager, identified as Prateshmesh Baswakar, lived in the ITBP camp in Guminagar, Aalo. His father, Rahul Baswakar, is a jawan of the border force.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Five members of the group approached the riverbank to record a video while holding hands. When they went into the water, the boy was swept away by the strong currents, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A massive search operation was launched involving ITBP personnel and residents. However, the boy could not be traced till late on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Efforts to locate the missing teenager are expected to continue on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, due to continuous downpour in the past week, most of the rivers, including the Yomgo, are in a spate, posing challenges to the search operation.(PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 4 May: The 17-year-old son of an ITBP jawan was swept away in the Yomgo River in West Siang district on Sunday while picnicking near the water body, police said. A search has been launched but he is yet to be traced, with rescuers fearing he might have drowned. The incident took place on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-282244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282244","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=282244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282248,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282244\/revisions\/282248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}