Video: Himachal River Tragedy Caught On Camera

BANGALORE: In the wake of the Himachal tragedy where 24 students of a Hyderabad engineering institute washed away in a flash flood; hair raising video that showed how the students life were turned into a tragedy in the Beas river went viral on internet, reports Hindustan Times.

The video showed how the students, who were on a holiday trip to Manali, were caught unawares when a strong rapid carried them away. Probably shot by a local, the visual showed the students standing on the boulders in the river bed for a picture-postcard shoot with the gurgling river in the background.

The video, now on YouTube, showed a wall of water suddenly starting to wash them away. The victims were screaming and howling. Some of them were trying to swim to save themselves.

Even passersby, probably locals, sought to enter the river to save the students from drowning, but the current was so strong that they did not dare move forward into the river. The video showed that the students who were standing on small rocks drowned first. Other students standing on a big boulder saw their friends being washed away, and desperately tried to save themselves. But they too got drowned.