Eight engineering students, including two girls, from Belgaum in Karnataka drowned in the sea off Malvan, Sindhudurg, here on Saturday afternoon, police said. Another three students were rescued by local fisherfolk. One of the students is in serious condition and undergoing treatment at Malvan hospital, said Sindhudurg Police Control official Ravindra Ghirkar.
The victims were part of a 50-strong group of picknickers from a private engineering college who arrived here early on Saturday in a private bus from Belgaum and had gone to the picturesque Wayri Beach.Shortly after reaching here, the students, allegedly ignoring warnings by locals of strong currents, ventured into the sea and were soon washed away into deep waters.
Fisherfolk managed to rescue three of them. They later retrieved the bodies of the other eight, including the two girls. Top police and district officials have arrived at the scene of the tragedy from Sindhudurg, around 35 km away. A picnic turned into a tragedy as five school students were drowned at a beach in Andhra Pradesh’s Kakinada town on Thursday, police said.
50 students went without permission. Going to the spot with ambulance: Dr V Udipi, Principal, Maratha Engineering College, Belgaum pic.twitter.com/5WT53mnovo
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A few days back also a similar incident happened when a picnic turned into a tragedy as five school students were drowned at a beach in Andhra Pradesh’s Kakinada town. The incident had occurred at Suryaraopet beach in the town in East Godavari district when a group of nine students were taking bath.
Five bodies were recovered while the locals saved three children and shifted them to the hospital. A search was on for the missing student.A group of 19 students from Kapulapalem in the same district had come to Kakinada for the picnic and nine of them had entered the water. Three of the deceased were from one family.
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