Mangaluru, Mar 31 (PTI) Two pre-university students who had gone to swim in the Macchattu Kaliajaddu lake in Kundapur taluk of Udupi district, Karnataka, drowned on Thursday, police sources said.

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The two, both aged 18, were studying in Sankaranarayana Junior College. They were swept away by the current, the sources said.

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The deceased were Sumanth Madiwala and Ganesh, residents of Ullur village in the taluk.

A bystander who noticed the incident alerted the local people who tried to rescue the boys, but they couldn't.

Personnel from the Amasebail police station visited the spot, the sources said.

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