Two students drowned in a river in Maharashtra's Thane district, officials said on Tuesday.
On Monday, 12 students went on a picnic to Malanggad fort in Ambernath area where two students went for a swim in the Ambe river nearby but one of them started drowning.
Two others from the group jumped into the river to save them but they drowned, an official from Hill Line police station said. The student who was drowning was later rescued, the official added.
The deceased, Nikhil Kanojia and Ankit Jaiswal, both aged 17, were students of a college in Dombivli town, he added.
A similar incident occured in the Saket area of Thane when a 17-year-old fell into a creek from a bridge on Monday night, Thane Municipal Corporation's regional disaster management cell (RDMC) chief Avinash Sawant said.
A team of local firemen and RDMC personnel rescued him with the help of a boat, the official said.
