2 Hyd-based VIT Students Drown In MP Waterfall
Bodies of the two students who hailed from Hyderabad were recovered on Monday morning, police said. The two deceased students were identified as 20-year-olds Sanmukh Rao and Hemant Rao, both second year students of engineering, police said
Bhopal: Two students of Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) in Madhya Pradesh’s Sehore district drowned in a local waterfall, police said on Monday.
Bodies of the two students who hailed from Hyderabad were recovered on Monday morning, police said. The two deceased students were identified as 20-year-olds Sanmukh Rao and Hemant Rao, both second year students of engineering, police said.
They had gone missing while taking bath in the Bhairukho Waterfall and Shankar Kund in the Kheoni wildlife sanctuary in Sehore on Sunday afternoon.
“Five VIT students had gone to the waterfall. Three students, one from Gujarat and two from Hyderabad noticed that the other two, Sanmukh and Hemant, were being washed away”, Sehore district superintendent of police Deepak Shukla said.
The incident took place at around five pm on Sunday.
The police and state disaster emergency response force (SDERF) rushed to the spot to rescue the two students.
But the rescue operation had to be suspended in the night following heavy rains, according to the police.
The bodies of two students were recovered from Shankar Kund on Monday morning, the police said.
The bodies have been sent for postmortem and the family members of the two deceased have been informed, police said.
As many as seven people have died of drowning in Sehore district in the last one month.
The VIT is situated in Kothri Kalan in Sehore district, adjoining Bhopal.
