Following incidents of drowning of students, the Indian Embassy in Russia issued an advisory on Friday, urging them to be extremely careful while going to water bodies.
Three children from Jagatsinghpur village in Bihar died due to drowning in the Burhi Gandak River. Five children initially drowned, but locals managed to save two of them.
A day ago (Thursday), four Indian students studying at the Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University in Veliky Novgorod, Russia, drowned in the Volkhov river, with a fifth student narrowly escaping and currently receiving medical attention.
In an unfortunate incident, five Indian students drowned in a river, of which one was saved in Russia's St Petersburg. The Indian embassy has assured that the authorities are working to send the bodies to the relatives as soon as possible.
A driver died after the auto-rickshaw he was driving fell into a stormwater drain at Abbakka Nagara near Kottara in Karnataka's Mangaluru on Friday night.
A four-year-old girl drowned in Tripura's Udaipur on Tuesday afternoon. The girl has been identified as Ananya Karmakar who was a resident of the Khilpara Taltala area of Udaipur.