In a tragic incident, a 16-year-old engineering diploma student drowned in a lake in Cyberabad.

According to the police, the young boy was identified as Manoj Kumar. He is studying engineering. On Friday, along with his five childhood friends had gone to Batasingaram lake near Hayathnagar police station at around 3:30 PM to swim.

Later at around 9:45 PM the local police received information of one student accidentally being drowned in Batasingaram lake who was later identified as Manoj Kumar.

All the six students are native of Godavarikhani, Karimnagar district of Telangana. They are all pursuing the Polytechnic diploma in different colleges.

All the students came to Batasingaram to visit their friend Aditya and then they decided to go to the lake to swim.

They were having fun, even filming they're get together on mobile camera when all of a sudden Manoj Kumar went to deep and drowned.

His friends tried to rescue him but failed. On Saturday morning the police team with the help of divers recovered the dead body of Manoj.

A case has been registered by the police. Police have also informed the student parents. The further investigation is on.

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BY M. DIVYA SRI