Two Indian students drowned at Turner Falls Park in Oklahoma

DAVIS, Oklahoma:

Two Indian students from Univerrsity of Texas-Arlington drowned at the Turner Falls Park in Oklahoma, Tuesday, Sept 3, reported KXII

Police said they got a call of a person in distress at the falls swimming area around 10 a.m. While police were en route, a friend jumped in to help the man but became a victim himself. Davis firefighters recovered the bodies of the men who were under nine feet of water.

Police said they suspect neither man could swim very well and neither were wearing a life jacket.

Both came with fellow college students. Police have not released their names yet.

Following this the park has closed one of its popular swimming areas about a month early.
This marks the third and fourth drownings at the park this summer. In July, an Indian American woman from Dallas, Jeslin Jose, 27, too drowned here.