Andhra Pradesh: Four engineering students drown in Krishna river, one body recovered
Four engineering students drowned in the Krishna river in Andhra Pradesh on Saturday.
The incident is said to have occurred at Ibrahimpatnam's Pavitra Sangamam, a suburb of Hyderabad in Ranga Reddy district, 35 kilometres from Hyderabad.
They were students of MIC Engineering College in Kanchikacharla district.
Police said the students of a private college came to Pavitra Sangamam, the confluence point of the Godavari and Krishna, along with another classmate, for a visit.
As one of them tried to get down into the river, he accidentally slipped and was washed away. Three others tried to rescue him but the force of the water pulled them also into the river, a police official said.
National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel have launched operations to trace them.
A
police
officer
said
that
about
100
people
were
taking
part
in
the
rescue
operations.
Rescue
teams
of
the
SDRF,
fire
service
and
other
departments
were
also
called
in.
Krishna
district
in
charge
collector
Vijaya
Krishnan
has
rushed
to
the
spot
to
oversee
rescue
operations,
the
police
added.
Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu expressed grief over the incident.