A student of the College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Berhampur, drowned in a pond at Mohuda on the outskirts of the city during immersion of idols of lord Ganesh and Biswakarma.
The deceased was identified as Asutosh Padhy, a final year B Pharma student. He belongs to Patapur village under the Digapahandi police limits in Ganjam district.
Padhy’s friends with the help of locals fished out his body and took him to the MKCG
Medical College Hospital here where he was declared brought dead.