Teacher, Five Students Drown In Krishna River In Andhra Pradesh

It is suspected that the students were inadvertently caught in a whirlpool in the river and drowned.

Five students and a teacher of a Vedic school drowned in river Krishna in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh on Friday evening, police said.

The tragedy occurred when they went for a bath in the river after completing their day classes.

The bodies were later fished out of the river.

The students have been identified as Shiva Sharma (14) of Madhya Pradesh, Nitish Kumar Dixit (15), Harshit Shukla (15), Shubham Trivedi (17) and Anshuman Shukla (14) of Uttar Pradesh.