Three students drown in water tank

Three students staying at a hostel at Turkal Khanapur in Medak district drowned in a water tank today, police said.

The students had gone out to answer nature's call outside as toilets in the hostel were not functioning. While they were passing by Batkamma tank, water bottle of a student, identified as Venkatesh, a 8th class student, fell in the tank. While he was trying to look for it, he fell in the tank and drowned, police said.

Two other students Hari Prasad and Mahinder who tried to rescue him also fell in the tank and drowned, police said adding their bodies were sent for post mortem.