Daijiworld Media Network - Kundapur (SP)

Kundapur, Nov 7: A student who went to swim in Sauda rivulet along with some friends on Monday November 6, drowned. The victim of this incident was Adarsh Mogaveera (16), son of Raju Mogaveera, a fisherman from Jannadi near Bidkalkatte in the taluk.

Adarsh, a ninth standard student of Bidkalkatte Government High School, had visited the rivulet with four of his friends as he had holiday on account of Kanakadasa Jayanti. He was caught by the river draught and pulled away all of a sudden. After his friends raised an alarm locals rushed to the spot and brought the boy out of the rivulet, but by then, Adarsh was no more.

Adarsh, who was a brilliant student from a poor family, has left behind parents and a sister. A case about the incident was filed at Kota police station.

In another incident, a student who went to swim along with a friend at Bijur village near Byndoor, drowned on Monday November 6 evening. Mahesh Holla (19) from Kota, who was pursuing B Com degree course at a college in Moodbidri, lost his life in this fashion.

Holla had come to visit his grandparents living in Bijur as he had holiday on Monday. In the evening, he went to Sumanavathi rivulet at Bijur Arekallu but drowned there. Some locals rescued him from the rivulet, but he breathed his last on the way to the hospital. Mahesh was the eldlest son of Revathi from Kota. A case about this death was registered at Byndoor police station.