Boy drowns a day after scoring 86% in matric

Balasore: A student in Bhadrak district, who scored 86.5% in the HSC exam on Thursday, drowned on Friday. The incident occurred in Shrirampur village under Charampa panchayat. Chandan Mohapatra, a student of Bandhagaon Nodal High School, had brought joy and hope to his family members after the Class X results were declared on Thursday by the Board of Secondary Education, Odisha. He obtained 519 marks out of 600.However, their joy was sort-lived as Chandan drowned while bathing in a nearby pond on Friday morning. Though people present at the spot rescued him and rushed him to the district headquarters hospital, he was declared dead.
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