Three college students washed away in Walayar Dam

Palakkad, Sep 27 (UNI) Three Polytechnic college students from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu were feared to have been washed away while bathing in Walayar Dam in this district on Monday.
According to police, a group of five students of Hindustan Polytechnic College at Sundarapuram near Coimbatore reached the Walayar dam site around 1430 hrs by their vehicles.
They ventured into the dam for a swim and three of them Sanjay, Rahul and Poornesh were washed away.
Fire force and divers rushed to the spot and search operation for the missing students was going on, police said.