Four class X students of Vidyadayinee Kannada Medium High School found dead in Nandini river near Mangaluru

Four class X students of Vidyadayinee Kannada Medium High School, Surathkal, who were reportedly missing since Tuesday afternoon, were found dead in the Nandini near Chelyar, on the outskirts of the city, early on Wednesday.

Four class X students of Vidyadayinee Kannada Medium High School, Surathkal, who were reportedly missing since Tuesday afternoon, were found dead in the Nandini near Chelyar, on the outskirts of the city, early on Wednesday.

The police gave the names of the deceased as Yashvith Chandrakant, Nirup, Anvith, and Raghavendra, all hailing from places near Surathkal.

The four students had appeared for the English paper on the second day of the State-level SSLC preparatory examinations on Tuesday. Later, they and three other classmates decided to spend some time on the banks of the river, said the police.

The police said that the seven had juice at the Surathkal market, boarded a bus bound for Kateel, and got down at Haleyangady.

Raghavendra, a resident of the area, took his classmates to the river at Chelyar. While three of them remained on the bank, the other four entered the river to reach the platform of a railway bridge across the river. Soon a boy got stuck in the slushy water and the three others who went to rescue him also got stuck, and drowned, said the police.

Nirup’s father Vishwanath, who works in the fire safety division of MRPL, said he called the school on Tuesday evening, where he was told that his son had left the school at 1.30 p.m. Then the family members of Yashvith Chandrakant, Anvith, and Raghavendra also called the school.

The family members then lodged a missing complaint with the Surathkal police station.