Student drowns as friends took it an all fool's day prank

IDUKKI (Kerala): All fools day ended up in a tragedy as an engineering student drowned in a reservoir near here after his friends mistook his struggle to stay afloat to that of a prank and failed to rescue him in time.
    
Aswin, 19, a first year student of a private engineering college went for a swim in the Malankara reservoir near here alongwith friends.
   
Soon after he entered the water, Aswin was seen struggling to stay afloat but his friends who watched him drowning from the banks of the reservoir mistook his cries for help to that of an April fool prank, police said.
    
By the time they realised their mistake, it was too late for the student.
    
His body was later fished out from the reservoir by Fire Force with the help of local people, police said.