Three students drowned in the Punarbhaba River adjacent to Kanchan bridge area near the Dinajpur town on Saturday.The deceased are Masud Abdullah, 17, son of Abu Taher and a 1st year student of Dinajpur city college, Mehedi Hasan Palash, 15, son of Ahsanullah and a class X student of Dinajpur High School and Habib Bin Turjo, 14, son Tofazzal Hossain and a class X student of Dinajpur Zila School. All were residents of Baluadanga area of the district town.Taposh Chandra Pandit, officer-in-charge of Birol Police Station, said the three friends drowned when they went to take bath in the river at noon.Local people recovered their bodies from the river at about 3:45pm.