Kaup/Udupi: Two students of Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT) who went to swim in the Sea at Kaup beach on Wednesday drowned and lost their lives in a tragic case.
The victims were identified as Abhijith Singh (18) from Chandigarh (near Punjab), Janakish (21) of Mecadonia near Greece. Local people were able to recover the body of the foreign student only.
The incident took place in the afternoon at 4pm, when 5 M.I.T students went out for fun. 4 of them were foreigners, other than Abhijith an Indian.
Janakish came from Bangalore to Manipal in July, for an internship under a student exchange plan between Manipal and foreign countries.
Police are alerted, as also MIT and the parents in the case.