Search operations started this morning to trace the missing students and a tour operator washed away in the Beas river in Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh.

The bodies of four engineering students were flown back to Hyderabad last night.

The students, belonging to a Hyderabad based engineering college, were on an educational trip to Himachal Pradesh when they were washed away by surging waters of Beas river on Sunday last.