A fifth standard student drowned in a open well on PSK Naidu Road in Frazer Town on Sunday.
Gowtham, is a student of government school from the same area. Police said Gowtham and his friends had gone for a swim in the well. A pair of clothes were found near the well. According to his friends, after the swim, Gowtham found it difficult to come out of the well; he slipped and drowned.
Fire force personnel were pressed to fish out the body. The body has been sent to Bowring Hospital for post-mortem.
In another incident, a 17-year-old college student drowned in Rayasandra lake in Parapanna Agrahara.
Jagadish, a resident of Channakeshavanagar was studying in PUC at BTL College. He had gone for a swim with his friends to the lake. He got caught in the weeds and drowned.
