Surat: Two people lost their lives after jumping into the Tapi River in Rander when they wrongly assumed in panic that an approaching police team was there to raid their gambling activity.

Mistaking a police team rushing in to nab a wanted criminal for a raid on their gambling activity, two of six gamblers jumped into Tapi River in Surat in a bid to escape but drowned on Tuesday.

The Mumbai police have launched a search operation in the Tapi river in Surat to locate the gun believed to have been used by two individuals in a shooting incident. According to police officials ...