Three students drown in river Krishna

Saturday, March 17, 2007, 22:40 [IST]

Vijayawada, Feb 26 (UNI) Three boys drowned in river Krishna at Thotlavalluru in Krishna district this evening.

All of them were the students of P V P Sidhartha Engineering College and had come to Thotlavalluru as a part of a 10-member excursion group, police said.

The bodies were recovered from the river and shifted to Vuyurru Government Hospital for post-mortem.

The students were identified as K Pramod (18), N Veerandranath (19) and A Vamsi Bharath (18), police added.

UNI

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