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RAJAHMUNDRY: Five BTech students of SRM University drowned successful stream Godavari connected the Andhra Pradesh-Telangana borderline connected Friday.The calamity occurred erstwhile 7 second-year engineering students from the backstage assemblage successful Amaravati fell into the stream portion taking photographs, adjacent Veleru colony nether Kukkunuru mandal successful Eluru territory of Andhra Pradesh.
While 2 of them managed to aquatics back, 5 were swept away.According to the police, the students visited the spot owed to Ugadi holidays and were taking photographs adjacent the river, erstwhile they mislaid equilibrium and fell into the water. There was a soil ramp nearby, and the stream was precise heavy there. The students, incapable to gauge the depth, whitethorn person tried to scope the soil ramp reasoning it was shallow and drowned, constabulary said.Two of the 7 students, who knew swimming, swam backmost safely.
Hearing their cries for help, immoderate locals who were sportfishing adjacent rushed successful to prevention the drowning students, but it was excessively late.Police rushed to the spot and pressed adept swimmers to hunt for the missing students.CM pushes for intensive hunt aft stream mishapSDRF teams besides joined the hunt operation. While 2 bodies were fished out, 3 students stay missing. Polavaram DSP M Venkateswara Rao said the 7 students from SRM University ventured into the Godavari connected the AP-Telangana borderline astatine astir 11.30 americium connected Friday.
They were picnicking and taking photographs and aboriginal ventured into the river. While the bodies of Podicheti Abhiram and Cheguntla Srikar Gupta were retrieved, hunt is connected to hint Gone Teja (native of Vuyyur town) , Pasam Satish Kumar (from Madanapalle), and Daggubati Navadeep (also from Vuyyur). Chunduti Deepak (from Kalidindi) and Gadla Harsha (from Vizianagaram), who swam backmost to safety, person been hospitalised arsenic they are successful trauma.
The bodies were shifted to Bhachrachalam govt infirmary for postmortem. Expressing heavy daze implicit the incident, main curate N Chandrababu Naidu directed the authorities acrophobic to proceed with the hunt cognition till each bodies were retrieved. He said the authorities govt volition basal by the families of the deceased students and widen each imaginable enactment to them.
