Coimbatore: Student drowns in Isha tank

Coimbatore: An Engineering student was drowned to death in a water tank at the Isha Yoga Centre on the outskirts of Coimbatore in the wake of some medical complications on Friday.

Police said the deceased, Ramesh, 20, of Kannigapuram Kottaimedu in Thiruvannamalai district and studying in a private Engineering college in Vellore, had set out along with 40 others of the same college on a trip to Ooty and on way visited the Isha Yoga Centre.

While the students were taking a bath in the ‘Suriya Kundam holy tank’ inside the Isha centre premises, Ramesh, unfortunately, got drowned in the tank. His friends pulled him out and rushed him to a nearby hospital, but doctors there declared Ramesh brought dead.

Karunya Nagar police have sent the body of the deceased to the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital (CMCH) for post-mortem and further investigations are on.

An administrative official of Isha Yoga Centre told Deccan Chronicle, “Ramesh suffered an epileptic attack as soon as he got into the tank; the medical complication is the reason for his death.

We have placed a caution board near the tank that devotees with medical complications like epileptic and cardiac problems should not enter the tank, but Ramesh has ignored it.”