Two Plus 2 students died due to drowning while taking bath in Mahanadi river in Paradip on Thursday.
The two boys hailing from Pathuria were taking bath when they went deep into the water and drowned. Some local residents present there rescued the duo and rushed them to a health center at Kujang.
However, the doctors at the health centre pronounced them brought dead.
Recently, three students had died after drowning in Mahanadi river near Jobra of Cuttack.
In a separate incident, a girl student of a college went missing after jumpinginto Baitarani river from a bridge connecting Chandbali and Rajkanika.
As per reports, the girl parked her bicycle and kept her belongings on Baitarani bridge and jumped into the river.
Upon being informed, two teams of fire services department reached the spot and launched a massive search operation to trace the girl.