A second year student of the Cross River State University of Technology (CRUTECH) has drowned in swimming pool in a hotel in Calabar, the state capital.
The deceased identified as Ugbe Dominic of the Guidance and Counseling Department of the university, it was gathered, drowned during a pool party organized by his department at the hotel on Friday.
Dominic had just participated in a swimming competition after which he got missing, it was learnt.
He was later spotted by one of the revelers floating in the pool.