Engineering students washed away in Krishna river

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Sun, Jun 24, 2018, 09:54 AM

Engineering students washed away in Krishna river

Krishna, June 24: In a bid to save their drowning friend, three others washed away in Krishna River at Ferry ghat near Ibrahimpatnam in Krishna district on Saturday.

In this regard, All the four washed away were second-year engineering students.

The police said that the incident occurred at Pavitra Sangamam, the confluence points of Krishna and Godavari rivers, at Ibrahimpatnam.

Five second-year students from a private engineering college had gone there for a picnic. When one of them was drowning while taking a bath, three others tried to save him but all of them were washed away in strong currents. The fifth student alerted the police.

The students who belonged to various places have come to the Ferry Ghat by the afternoon of Saturday. Srinath was a native of Tiruvuru, Krishna Chaitanya Reddy was from Reddygudem, Raj Kumar was from Kothapet in Vijayawada town and Praveen was a native of Guntur town.