Vizag youth drowns in Australia

Visakhapatnam: A mechanical engineering student from the city who was doing his MS in Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, allegedly drowned in a lake in the outskirts of Melbourne on Wednesday afternoon. V. Anudeep, 25, resident of Muralinagar, had completed his BTech from a private engineering college here.

According to his friends and relatives here, Anudeep along with four friends had gone out on an outing in a forested area in Melbourne’s outskirts and ventured for a swim into the lake with two of his friends. Another friend was shooting a video.

Though Anudeep was a good swimmer, he apparently went into deep water and drowned; the temperature was low and some ice pieces were floating on the water, it was said. His body was recovered after a couple of hours.

“We don’t know what happened exactly but we lost our brother, who had gone Australia with many hopes,” said his sister Anusha. Anudeep’s friends in Australia informed his family that they tried to rescue him but in vain. Anudeep’s father V. Krishnamurthy works with a public sector insurance company.

Anudeep’s family said he had gone to Australia in March 2016. He had come home in mid-June and returned to Australia in July. The family was trying to get his body back.

“We received information on Wednesday night and we are been trying to contact the embassy to see that the body is sent back to India by Saturday,” a family member said.