India, April 9 -- A 21-year-old man from Delhi drowned in a lake at Sirohi in Faridabad while bathing with friends, police said on Wednesday.

The deceased, identified as Abhishek Kumar, hailed from Basant Gaon in South-West Delhi and worked in a private firm, police said.

Police said Kumar went to Faridabad with three friends on two motorcycles on Tuesday. The group reached the lake by 3:15 pm and spent almost an hour at the embankment before entering the lake to bathe.

Inspector Darpan Kumar, station house officer of Dhauj police station, said the victim accidentally slipped into the deeper part of the lake and began to drown.

"The friends tried to help him but could not reach him as none of them knew how to swim," he said.

The frie...