Puttur, Dec 13: A high school student met a watery grave while playing in the Netravathi river along with his friends at Uppinangady on Thursday, December 12.
The deceased has been identified as Mohammad Mubarak(14), a class nine student of the High School section of the Uppinangady Government Pre-University College. He was the only son of Abusali, a farmer in Adekar of Hirebandadi village.
Their school was celebrating its annual sports meet that day. It is learnt, the boys had gone against the directive of the teachers who had warned them not to go to the river banks.
Uppinangady police have registered a case.
