BTech student drowns while clicking pics at abandoned quarry in Malkaram | Hyderabad News

Hyderabad: An 18-year-old BTech first-year student allegedly drowned in a water body at an abandoned quarry in Malkaram near Jawahar Nagar on Friday evening. The incident occurred when 12 students of an engineering college reached the water body to click photographs. Later, Hyderabad Disaster Response and Asset Protection Agency (HYDRAA) Disaster Response Force (DRF) teams later retrieved the body after a 10-minute search operation.The deceased, Pawan Sai, was a student of Geethanjali Engineering College. He was among a group of 12 students, including three girls, who visited the abandoned quarry after watching reels of it on Instagram and considered it an ideal location for clicking photographs.According to HYDRAA officials, two students entered the water body and sat on a rock to take photographs. Later, one of them said he would go towards another rock and return. However, while returning, Pawan Sai drowned as he did not know how to swim.The DRF control room received information about the incident on Friday evening and alerted nearby teams. Two HYDRAA DRF teams reached the spot and launched search operations. As it was sundown, darkness soon enveloped the area.Also, the rescue operation was challenging, as the teams had to take a boat into the quarry pit from a height of nearly 300 metres. The teams retrieved the body in about 10 minutes. Jawahar Nagar police took custody of the body for further investigation.