India, May 27 -- Eight teenagers drowned in the Godavari river in Kamini Lanka island of Mummidivaram mandal (block) in Andhra Pradesh's Dr. BR Ambedkar Konaseema district on Monday, the police said, adding that rescue teams could retrieve the bodies of only seven of them by Tuesday evening.

Amalapuram deputy superintendent of police TSRK Prasad said a group of 11 teenagers, all in the age group of 13-20 years, from Kakinada, Ramachandrapuram and Mandapeta had come to attend a family function at Sherilanka village in K Gangavaram mandal on Monday.

"In the evening, they went to the Godavari river at Kaminilanka to take a bath. As they could not gauge the depth of the river, they drowned," he said.

While three of them managed to swim bac...