Three students of Jharia coalfield were feared drowned while bathing in Bhatinda waterfall, around 20 km away from the district headquarters in Jharkhand today.
The incident took place when a group of five students, who had just passed class 12, had gone for a bath in the waterfall in which three of them were feared drowned .
A rescue team was pressed into service for fishing out the missing students, but no one was found till 6 pm.
The students who were missing were Rajiv Ranjan (17), Roshan Prasad (17) and Rohit Agrawal.
According to Vijay Rajak, a police officer of Putki police station, the five students had gone there on two bikes for taking a bath at around 3 pm.
Three of them drowned while trying to save each other, he said.
