India, Aug. 2 -- Three Class 12 students drowned in the Hathinala-Bildha waterfall in Madhya Pradesh's Narsinghpur district late Friday night.

The deceased were all residents of Jabalpur. A rescue operation was conducted till late night, and the bodies were recovered from the waterfall located in the forest near Bildha village on the Jabalpur-Bhopal Highway.

"The three students had gone to the schools. When they did not return home till late evening, the families started searching for them. Their fellow students informed them about their plan of visiting the waterfall. The family members, along with police, reached the spot and found a bike and their clothes," superintendent of police of Narsinghpur Mrigaki Deka said.

Their bodies were...