Teenager Drowns In River During School Trip As Friends Pose For Selfie (Photo)

This tragic selfie shows a student drowning on a school trip while his unaware friends smile into the camera.

Cadets at the National College in Bangalore, India were swimming in pond near a temple when one got into difficulties in the water.

But his friends were totally oblivious and only realised the 17 year old was missing when they left.

The boy’s grieving family later sat with his body outside the National College to protest his death.

They blame ‘negligent’ teachers after the boys ignored signs telling them not to enter the water.

The school’s management has promised an investigation and disciplinary action against any member of staff found to be culpable.

Police confirmed that Vishwas G., the elder son of rickshaw driver Govindaraju and his wife Sunanda, drowned after a picnic near a 300-year-old temple.

Police said Prof Girish was present at the time but college authorities claimed that no faculty member had accompanied the students.

Local police officers later pulled Vishwas’s body from the water and his parents rushed to the scene after they were alerted by his friends.

Kaggalipura police said around 25 students, all NCC cadets from the Jayanagar college, had been on the trip.

They disregarded a sign warning people against entering the water and ‘plunged in,’ a police officer said.