The group had accessed the closed Lemur Seaside, stated police
Chennai:
5 visiting medical college students, together with two ladies, drowned in sea off Kanniyakumari coast in Tamil Nadu on Monday.
The scholars, within the closing weeks of their course, had been out swimming at a personal seashore that remained shut.
“The group had accessed the closed Lemur Seaside via a coconut grove. It was closed as the ocean was tough. We’re investigating,” Kanniyakumari District Superintendent of Police E Sundaravathanam instructed NDTV.
Investigators say the group, as half of a bigger group from SRM Medical School in Tiruchirappalli, had come for a marriage in Kanniyakumari on Sunday. They cut up themselves into smaller teams and took to exploring the vacationer city and this explicit group had come to the personal seashore.
The lifeless have been recognized as Charukavi from Thanjavur, Gayathiri from Neyveli, Sarvadarshith from Kanniyakumari, Praveen Sam from Dindigul and Venkatesh from Andhra Pradesh.
Three different ladies interns – Neshi from Karur, Preethi Priyanka from Theni and Saranya from Madurai – have been rescued and are being handled on the Asaripallam Medical School Hospital.
On Sunday, three others from Chennai had drowned whereas they took a dip at one other seashore.
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