The bodies of four engineering students who drowned in the River Krishna in Andhra Pradesh on Saturday were recovered on Sunday following an intensive search operation.
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The bodies of four engineering students who drowned in the Krishna river in Andhra Pradesh on Saturday were recovered on Sunday following an intensive search operation.
The four, who were second year students of a private college at Kanchikacharla in Krishna district, drowned at the Pavitra Sangamam the confluence of Godavari and Krishna rivers on Saturday evening.
According to reports, the incident happened when three of the students tried to rescue the fourth from drowning during a swim. A fifth student, who was with the group, alerted authorities.
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A massive rescue operation involving personnel from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) was launched immediately. Divers from the Indian Navy joined the search on Sunday morning.
The four have been identified as Krishna Chaitanya Reddy (18), Praveen K (18), Srinadh N (19) and Raj Kumar (19). All four were from Andhra Pradesh. The bodies have been shifted to a government hospital in Vijayawada for autopsy.
Vijaya Krishnan, Krishna district Collector (in-charge), had on Saturday said the students might have failed to gauge the force of the current.
“Everything happened in two minutes. By the time the patrol teams in the area arrived, everything happened,” she said.
Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has expressed grief over the accident.
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