Rescue teams of the Vadodara fire department retrieved the body of a 21-year-old engineering student, who allegedly drowned in the Mahisagar river near Lacchanpur village in Savli taluka of Vadodara district on Wednesday, after he stepped into the river with friends to take a dip.

The student – identified as Divya Gupta – had allegedly left his home on Tuesday and told his parents he would stay over at a graphics designing studio with his friends to finish a project on Tuesday night. On Wednesday evening, the family received a call informing them that Gupta had drowned in the Mahisagar river while on an outing with friends.

A senior official of the Vadodara district police said, “The family received a call late Wednesday evening that their son had drowned in the Mahisagar river… They rus

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