Two students drown in Nashik dam

Nashik (Maharashtra): Two students of a city-based engineering college drowned in the Ozarkhed dam in the district, police said today.

The incident took place last evening when four friends had gone to swim in the dam, an official attached to the Vani police station said.

Of the four, Kaustubh Agale (22) and Akshay Jagtap (23) slipped into the dam and drowned. Their bodies were fished out by police and villagers late last night, he said.

A case has been registered at the Vani police station and the bodies were handed over to their family members after post-mortem, the officer added.