LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Two males drowned Sunday within the Colorado River south of Needles, California, the Mohave County Sheriff’s Workplace (MCSO) stated on Monday.
Authorities in Arizona and California responded to a name after two males went underwater close to the Topock Gorge. A diver from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Division discovered and retrieved each victims. Life-saving efforts didn’t revive them.
Anoop Gankidi, 32, of Tempe, Arizona, and Venkata Mukkaala, 32, of Milpitas, California, had been pronounced lifeless on the Colorado River Medical Middle in Needles.
Investigators realized {that a} rental pontoon had been parked on a seaside alongside the river, and all 5 occupants went into the water to chill off. Three of them slipped underwater and started to wrestle, in accordance with MCSO. One of many folks was capable of get to a shallow space.
The 2 males who drowned had been underwater for about 20 minutes when divers arrived. They had been present in about 12 toes of water.
Impairment was not an element on this incident, MCSO stated. The investigation is constant.
Needles is about 110 miles south of Las Vegas. Topock Gorge is about 17 miles farther downstream.
