Guwahati: Five students drowned in Krishna district’s Chandarlapadu mandal of Andhra Pradesh, and their bodies were recovered by NDRF officials on Tuesday morning.
According to reports, recovered bodies of all the five students, aged between 11 and 14 years. They had been gone since Monday afternoon, when they went swimming in the Munneru rivulet near Eturu to learn how to swim.
The deceased were identified as Maguluri Sunny, Karla Bala Yesu, Jetti Ajay Babu, Maila Rajesh and Garijala Charan. They were all the students Eturu Zilla Parishad High School.
However, the students who had been at home due to Sankranti vacations went to the rivulet on Monday afternoon. Their parents had gone to the fields to work.
According to the police, a local fisherman told them not to go into the deep waters because there was a risk of drowning, but they disobeyed the warning and became entangled in a whirlpool.
Meanwhile, the fisherman attempted but failed to save them. They then notified the police, who requested assistance from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF).
It may be mentioned that the NDRF crew maintained their search efforts until late Monday night, with the assistance of the police and revenue departments.