Search operation continues on second day after 13 students drown at Murud Beach

Thirteen students from a college in Pune who had gone Murud Janjira bear near Alibag in Raigad district are feared drowned. (Source: Express photo by Sudhir Nazare)

They had entered the waters for a swim on Monday afternoon.(Source: Express photo by Sudhir Nazare)

Raigad district police said that those feared drowned are students from Computer Science department of the Abeda Inamdar College in Pune. (Source: Express photo by Sudhir Nazare)

A group of over 120 students had gone for a picnic. (Source: Express photo by Sudhir Nazare)

A senior police officer from Raigad police said that the students could not anticipate the sudden low tide and were dragged into the water. (Source: Express photo by Sudhir Nazare)

Search operations continue on the second day at the Murud beach in Raigad district (Photo by Narendra Vaskar)

A team of college officials has left for Murud to assist rescue work. (Source: Express photo by Sudhir Nazare)

The picnickers were accompanied by around ten staff members including teachers, the college authorities said. (Source: Express photo by Sudhir Nazare)

A pall of gloom descended over the college following the tragedy. (Source: Express photo by Sudhir Nazare)

P A Inamdar, Trustee of the Pune-based college, alleged that the beach where the students had gone apparently had no life guard. (Source: Express photo by Sudhir Nazare)

The Navy has also deployed two interceptor craft for the search operations. (Source: Express photo by Sudhir Nazare)