A 21-year-old Malawi College of Accountancy student has died after drowning in Lake Malawi where he along with other students went for a trip, police say.
The deceased has been identified as Solomon Magombo from Chileka Village in Traditional Authority Kapeni in Blantyre District.
The incident took place at Cape Maclear Fisheries Cottage.
It is reported that the deceased together with his fellow students from Malawi College of Accountancy, Blantyre Campus, went to Cape Maclear Fisheries Cottage for an education visit.
On the morning of March 6 2022, the deceased went to swim into Lake Malawi whilst drunk and it was around 08:30 hours when his friends discovered that he was missing.
A search was mounted into the lake whereby he was found already dead.
The matter was reported to police, who in turn visited the scene and took the dead body to Monkeybay Health Centre.
Postmortem conducted established that death was caused due to suffocation.