An engineering student on Wednesday drowned while bathing in a pond in Kolkata, police said.
Souvik Chandra, a second year student at Jadavpur University, drowned while bathing in the pond at Ganguly Banagn's Ramgarh, a police officer said.
According to locals, Chandra and his friends used to bathe in the pond every day after playing football.
On Wednesday, he struggled to breathe after wading into the pond's centre. Chandra's friends brought him out and took him to a hospital where he was declared dead.
--IANS
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