Beas river mishap: 5 bodies found, 19 students still missing...

26 Hyderabad students go missing in Himachal river : SHIMLA: At least 24 students, including six girls, of an engineering college in Hyderabad were reported missing Sunday after strong currents in the mighty Beas river in Himachal Pradesh's Mandi district washed them away. Their chances of survival were bleak, officials said. More than 60 students and faculty members from V.N.R. Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology were on an excursion to the picturesque tourist resort of Manali and were getting themselves photographed on the banks of the river in Thalaut area near the Hanogi Mata temple when they were reportedly washed away as the flow in the river suddenly increased, Mandi Deputy Commissioner Devesh Kumar told IANS. The river was suddenly in spate with the release of water from a nearby hydropower project.