Perambra: A college student drowned in a river near Janakikad Ecotourism Centre here on Friday. 

The deceased has been identified as Gaushik Dev (22), a BDS student from Pondicherry. 

The incident happened around 4 pm. Gaushik arrived in Chavaram Muzhi, near Janakikadu, with six other friends studying at Mahi Dental College. He drowned while the group was bathing in the river. 

The Peruvannamuzhi Police and the locals retrieved the body from the river. The body is shifted to a mortuary of Kuttiady Taluk Hospital.