5 engineering students drown in Telangana reservoir

Five students, including two girls, of an engineering college today drowned in a reservoir near here, police said.

A group of six students of Vaagdevi Engineering College at Bollikunta near here went to Dharmasagar Reservoir for an outing.

Tragedy struck when five of them stepped into the reservoir for a bath, but they drowned, police said.

The victims, all aged around 18, were third year students of computer science, police added.