Two men drowned in a river after going into the water to cool off, Arizona deputies said.
Anoop Gankidi, 32, from Tempe, Arizona, and Venkata Mukkaala, 32, from Milpitas, California, began to struggle after venturing into the Colorado River near Topock Gorge the afternoon of Aug. 3, the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office said in an Aug. 4 Facebook post.
They were part of a group of five that had parked a rented pontoon boat on a beach on the river, deputies said. All five got in the water as a break from the heat, and then “three of them slipped underwater and began to struggle,” according to deputies…