In a heartrending incident, three school students drowned and another went missing in river Mahanadi here on Wednesday morning. Fire brigade personnel, after fishing out three bodies from the river, searched for the missing boy till evening but failed to trace him.
At least six High School students of Buxibazar locality here bunked school and went to the river near Gadagadia Ghat for bathing in their school uniform. “All of them sank as they came across quick sand. But two students, who knew swimming, escaped from the quick sand and swam back to the shore,” the police said quoting the survivors Sarfaz and Aslam.
The fire brigade personnel fished out the bodies of Abral (13), Fazan (13) and Abdullah (8) from 200 meters downstream of the Ghat. Salman (13), elder brother of Farzan, is feared drowned as there has been no trace of him after seven hours of the mishap.