A class XII student of Birbhum Zilla School in Santiniketan is feared to have drowned in river Kopai here when he and four friends went to take a dip and shoot a video clip on Thursday afternoon.

Sources said , Mohammed Aman, 18, accompanied by three classmates and a college student came from Suri on motorcycles to shoot a video for a song sung by the college student.

“The college student happens to be well-known locally as a singer and has performed in a popular reality show recently. He came to shoot a video for his song along with four friends. Unfortunately, the river had heavy current because of monsoon. As they got into the water to bathe, Aman was swept away,” said a police source.

Police roped in professional divers to find the body but the divers were unsuccessful till evening.

Aman’s mother Mohafuz Banu said all her calls to her son and his friends in the afternoon went unanswered.

“I was informed from an unidentified number about what befell my son,” she said.