Odisha: Three NIFT and two engineering students die in separate incidents

At least five students on Tuesday died in separate incidents in Cuttack and Khurda of Odisha, police said.

Three students of NIFT- Bhubaneswar, drowned while taking bath in the Mahanadi near Gadagadia ghat in Cuttack and two other engineering students succumbed in a road accident on NH-5 in the outskirts of the state capital. Cuttack DCP Sanjeev Arora said the three deceased students of NIFT-Bhubaneswar have been identified as Srusti Paul (Kolkata), Sandip Kumar (Ranchi) and Pritam Priyadarshi (Delhi).
"The students entered the water ignoring the cautionary signboard put on the river bank. We will analyse the cause of drowning," Arora said.

The police said four NIFT students had gone to take bath in the Mahanadi. While one managed to save himself, three were swept away by the current since Mahanadi is in spate. While Srusti Paul was fished out dead by rescue teams of the Fire Brigade and Orissa Disaster Rapid Action Force (ODRAF), Sandip Kumar and Pritam Priyadarshi were rescued in critical condition and rushed to SCB Medical College Hospital.They died at the hospital during treatment.

The two engineering students who died in a road mishap have been identified as Dhiraj Kumar and Niraj Kumar from Jharkhand. The duo were travelling in a bike which collided head-on against a LPG tanker, the police said.