Keonjhar: A student went missing and two others became critical today while taking a bath in Kundulu waterfall in Joda locality under Bolani police limits of Keonjhar district.

The missing student has been identified as Tara Shankar Sarkar from Kolkata.

According to a source, some students of a private educational institution in neighbouring Kolkata of West Bengal had come to Keonjhar on a study tour earlier in the day. Three of them went to the waterfall to take a bath and accidentally slipped into the water and one of them went missing.

Two students were later rescued in critical condition following a frantic search by a joint team of ODRAF and fire services personnel. “We had to strive for hours together,” a member of the rescue team said.

The critical students were immediately taken and admitted to a hospital in Barbil.

“Condition of the two students is not out of danger,” a doctor treating them expressed.