One of the students was on a video call with his parents when he and three others drowned, a family member said.
The River Volkhov. (Alexxx1979/Creative Commons)
Russian authorities have recovered the bodies of the four Indian students who drowned in the Volkhov river, a Maharashtra Government official said on 8 June. The bodies are being flown to Mumbai. Harshal Anantrao Desale, Jishan Ashpak Pinjari, Jia Firoj Pinjari and Malik Gulamgous Mohammad Yakub drowned, but Nisha Bhupesh Sonawane survived. They were studying at Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University.