Two trainee doctors drown

Saturday, March 17, 2007, 13:47 [IST]

Kancheepuram, Mar 4 (UNI) In a tragic incident two trainee dental doctors were washed away when they were having a bath in the sea at Therikupattu near Mahabalipuram here today.

According to police, the mishap occurred when the two along with 35 other students and trainee doctors of a dental college, in Maduraivayil near Chennai, had come on a visit to the beach and were having a bath in the sea.

While returing back after having a bath the others noticed that the two victims were drowing into the sea. They were rescued and rushed to a private hospital at Kelambakkam.

However, the efforts by the doctors to save them failed.

The bodies were sent for post-mortem, police added.

UNI

Topics: ACCIDENT-DOCTORS

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