Mangaluru: Two college boys drown in Netravati river

Pics: Spoorthi Ullal / Mohan Kuthar
Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (DV)

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Mangaluru, Mar 21: Two students who went for a swim in Netravati river on Saturday March 21 met watery graves.

The boys are identified as Aditya Nayak and Chirag Bangera.

Aditya, Chirag, Satvik and Prateek, all second PU students of Canara College, had got together at Aditya's house at Morgan's Gate for group study.

The boys later went to Kallapu, where Aditya and Chirag got into the river for a swim.

While in the water, Aditya and Chirag got washed away by the currents. Their friends Satvik and Prateek who were close by raised an alarm.

The fire service, the locals and the police rushed to the spot and efforts are on to locate the missing boys.

After much effort, the body of Chirag was retrieved while search is still on for the other boy.

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William, MANGALORE
Sun, Mar 22 2015
It is so very sad that today's youngsters don't for a moment think of any danger and don't take any precaution before venturing into the water.What happens to all the dreams of their parents?They will live to regret every single day for leaving these boys alone who on the pretext of studying do such foolish things . Our heartfelt condolences to the families of the young victims.Every single day we hear and read about these avoidable tragedies and it is always the young who are the victims.May better sense prevail to the young.

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Shravan kumar, Mangalore
Sun, Mar 22 2015
RIP mates

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apoorva, Mangalore
Sun, Mar 22 2015
R.I.P brothers...... We miss u...

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ashish, mangalore
Sun, Mar 22 2015
chirag and aaditya i ll miss u bro...

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Oswald Monteiro, Mangalore
Sat, Mar 21 2015
That stretch of path is also notorious for chain snatching, eve teasing, and other crimes. Lone women commuters do not feel safe to walk across from Ullal Hoige to southern end of Nethravathi bridge on NH-66. Quite a few assaults on women have taken place there. Ullal police need to patrol the area regularly.

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Stan, Udupi/ Dubai
Sat, Mar 21 2015
This incident should be an eye opener for other youngsters to take enough precautions while entering into river. At least they can jump with life saving jackets around so that their parents need to have to go through difficulties of loosing their young ones.

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ST, mlr
Sat, Mar 21 2015
Its too dangerous to venture out to the river when there is high tide.. even if you know how to swim it is useless unless you are an expert ... Lets pray for their safety..

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Muhammad Sunthabail, mangalore
Sat, Mar 21 2015
Hope these young boys are saved....Swimming in swimming pool and swimming in river is entirely different...Dont venture into river swimming in places like this unless you have expertise...

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