Three students who went to bathe in the river drowned in Odisha’s Bhadrak

Bhubaneswar (IANS) | Three students drowned in Naliya river in Odisha’s Bhadrak district on Tuesday, while two others were rescued. According to the local people, five class 11 students of Charampa College had gone to the river to take a bath when the tragic incident took place. Local fire brigade reached the spot and rescued all the five students and took them to Bhadrak Hospital. Where the doctors declared three students brought dead and two other students were discharged after first aid.

A doctor at Bhadrak Hospital, P.K. Khara said that we found three of the five students dead in the hospital. His post-mortem will be done and after that the exact cause will be ascertained.

Local MLA Sanjeeb Kumar Mallick said that a very sad incident happened today, in which we lost our three small children. Aid has been provided to the dead by the Red Cross. I would urge the government to sanction Rs 4 lakh ex-gratia to the family members of each of the deceased.

–IANS