Two Gunma Men Found Dead in River After Foraging for Wild Plants

"Breaking News ""Gunma Prefecture"".
By AI from ""Isesaki FM"".

On the 25th, two men from Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture, went missing while picking wild vegetables in Yamanouchi Town, Nagano Prefecture, and their bodies were found in the river the following morning on the 26th after a search by police and others.
The two men who died were aged 76 and 80, and they had been picking wild vegetables in Okushiga Kogen with a 77-year-old man. They got separated from the man who was accompanying them at around 4pm and could not be contacted afterwards.
As a result of the search, one of them was found on the bank of the river and the other in the river.
The 77-year-old man who was accompanying them said, ""There were wild vegetables on the other side of the river, so the three of us tried to cross the river,"" and ""At that time, the river was swollen and the water was about waist-high."""