Shimla, April 23 -- A 16-year-old boy from Chandigarh drowned in a stream in Himachal Pradesh's Solan district, police said on Wednesday. The boy identified as Saurabh Kumar drowned in the Nawanagar stream in the Baddi area on Tuesday, they said. Sonu Kumar, his brother, said one of Saurabh's friends informed them in the evening about the drowning. Family members rushed to the stream and began a search for him with the locals. The police were alerted around 7 pm, which carried on the search through the night. An NDRF team joined the operation on Wednesday morning and recovered the body. It was sent to Nalagarh civil hospital for a post-mortem, the police said. Saurabh had recently cleared his class 10 exams and came to the area on vacation. Meanwhile, locals raised concerns over safety arrangements in the area, alleging a lack of regular police patrolling and instances of substance abuse by visitors. According to locals, a young man drowned at this very spot a few years ago.PTI...