Bantwal: Four Students Meet Watery Grave at Thumbe

Daijiworld Media Network – Bantwal (GA) – pics – Dayanand Kukkaje

Bantwal, May 18: Four students from a reputed education institute of Mangalore who had come for picnic, met watery grave in Netravati river at Thumbe near here on Friday May 18 afternoon.

The drowned have been identified as Marina, Jyothi, Shailaja and Dilip.  More details about the deceased are still awaited.

Sources said that a total of 20 students from an education institute from Mangalore had gone for picnic.  After getting down from the tempo, they had got into the river with the help of a ferry boat.

It is said that when they got into the river there was low tide.  But when they wanted to come back a little while later it was the time for high tide and they were caught in deep waters.

This resulted in students getting panicked and confused.  It was then that four of them including three females drowned.  Locals said that while they drowned, one of the females tried to catch the leg of a male student.  But owing to strong current, even the said boy was pulled along and met watery grave.

Daijiworld correspondent reporting from the spot said that all the four bodies have been fished out from the river.  People are thronging in big numbers to the spot.  The companions of the drowned are still in shock at the loss of their counterparts.

More details are awaited.