Drowned student’s body recovered

The body of a student, who drowned along with 13 of his colleagues out on a picnic, was on Tuesday recovered from the Arabian Sea off Murud beach in Raigad district even as initial information suggested that the tragedy struck when 10 students formed a human chain to save four drowning campus mates and ended up meeting a watery grave.

A defence spokesperson said the body was recovered this morning. The bodies of 13 students were recovered yesterday itself in searches conducted by the Navy and the Coast Guard.

“We have received information that the body of Madaki Saif Ahmed has been recovered. His parents had rushed to the spot and after the post mortem, the body will be brought back to Pune ,” said P A Inamdar, president of Maharashtra Cosmopolitan Education Society, which runs the Abeda Inamdar Senior College in Pune where the students were studying.

Relatives and friends of the deceased, meanwhile, gathered at various burial grounds and crematoriums in Pune for their last rites.