Two Indian males misplaced their lives whereas attempting to swim in probably the most harmful spots at Piha Seaside, positioned west of Auckland in New Zealand, media studies stated.

Saurin Nayankumar Patel, 28 and Anshul Shah, 31, who had arrived from Ahmedabad final 12 months on a piece visa, didn’t know find out how to swim and drowned final week, The NZ Herald reported.

Patel was {an electrical} engineer, whereas Shah labored as a cashier at a fuel station and arrived right here in November 2022. They had been roommates.

“It’s a huge tragedy for the Indian group, the lack of these two males, and our ideas exit to their households,” Indian Excessive Fee second secretary Durga Dass informed The NZ Herald.

Confirming the identities of two males, Dass stated that the Indian Excessive Fee in Wellington was in contact with the victims’ households in India.

United North Piha Surf Lifesaving Membership president Robert Ferguson informed Herald {that a} lifeguard within the tower noticed two folks within the water close to the river mouth round 200 metres from Lion Rock.

“By the point the lifeguards had received to the place the place the swimmers had gone in and put their tubes and fins on and swam out, they had been gone,” Ferguson stated.

He added that the spot the place the 2 selected to swim was probably the most harmful on the seashore.

“The place they went in I wouldn’t have gone in,” Ferguson informed The NZ Herald.

hE stated it was an infinite response with off-duty lifeguards, rescue boats, police, paramedics and locals with knowledgeable well being abilities.

Resuscitation efforts began instantly after the pair was discovered, nevertheless it was too late.

Givealittle web page has been created to boost funds to ship their our bodies again to India.

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