Students drown while bathing in Yamuna
Muzaffarnagar, Sep 14 (PTI) Two engineering students drowned in the Yamuna at Kairana in Shamli district while taking a bath in the river, police said today.
The deceased have been identified as Jharkhand natives Prince Kumar Sharma and Kishan Mahato, SHO A P Bharadwaj said.
The incident took place last evening when the two had gone to the river to take a bath along with three other friends. Surjit, Mohit and Johnson were rescued, but Sharma and Mahato drowned, the SHO said.
The students were in the first year of B Tech in a local engineering college.
