Teenager drowns in stream near waterfall in Karnataka | Bengaluru

A 17-year-old college student drowned in a stream near a waterfall in Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka, police said on Sunday.

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The deceased has been identified as Vivek, a second year pre-university student at Ujire PU college.

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Vivek and seven of his friends were on the way to Ermayi falls on Saturday evening. They had halted by the stream at Kallanda in Belthangady taluk to have a bath when he was washed away in the swift current, police said.

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Local people fished out the body later.

Belthangady police have registered a case.