Indian student found dead in a canal in UK

A 19-year-old Indian student in Britain, Souvik Pal who was missing since New Year’s Eve, has been found dead after the British police recovered his body from a canal near Manchester United club’s football ground.

The cause of his death is yet to be determined as a post-mortem will be conducted later.

Souvik, a product design student at Manchester Metropolitan University, was last seen at the event at about 11 pm and was reported missing by a flatmate the following morning.

His father, Santanu Pal, travelled from his home in Bangalore to help with the search. Police will hand over Souvik’s body to Shantanu after autopsy by late Wednesday so that the family could decide whether to perform the last rites in Manchester or take it to Bangalore by flight.