Two teenagers drowned while bathing in different incidents at Jalpaiguri and Dhupguri towns on Sunday.

In Jalpaiguri town, Gunjan Chhetri, 15, a resident of Bhanunagar in ward 10 of the town, went to take a bath in the Karala river at King Sahib’s Ghat.

Sujit Goswami, an eyewitness to the incident, said he was standing near the bank when he heard some boys shouting for help. He then spotted a boy drowning in the river.

“I got into the river, along with three of his friends but could not save Chhetri. We then raised an alert,” Goswami added.

As the news spread, hundreds assembled in the area and many of them got into the river, trying to trace the boy.

Soon, a civil defence team reached the spot and launched a search operation. After around eight hours, they found Chhetri’s lifeless body.

“There was undercurrent in the river and it took us time to locate the body. The body was stuck in some wooden structures of idols and iron meshes,” said Ratan Mondal, group leader of the team.

Meanwhile at Kathulia village in Dhupguri block, a 12-year-old Bijoy Roy went to a pond for a bath with some of his friends.

Sources said Roy suddenly drowned in the pond. Local people rescued him took him to a hospital where doctors pronounced him brought dead.

Police officers said a probe had been started.