Seven youngsters were drowned in the Ganga river in Kanpur when one of them slipped into the river while taking a selfie and the others tried to save him, police said. Seven bodies have been fished out of the river. Kauhana station house officer J.P. Sharma informed that the boys were enjoying the rain that lashed the city when one of them trying to take a selfie by standing on the edge of the barrage tripped and fell in the Ganga, which was in spate due to rains in the region..