4 Engineering Students, On An Outing, Drown In Andhra Pradesh

Hyderabad: Four engineering students have drowned in a large pond in West Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh. The undergraduate students had gone for an outing on Saturday, during which they decided to jump into the water for a quick swim, police said.

All the four bodies have been found.

Police said the students left their backpacks and lunchboxes at a clearing near the pond. A polythene bag full of guavas, which the boys had plucked from trees near the pond, lay scattered near their jeans and shirts.

Police said the boys have been identified as K Harikrishna Raju, Kota Sai, ASK Parasuman and G Vijaya Sankar, all engineering students of Ramachandra College of Engineering in Eluru, some 330 kilometres from Hyderabad.