Brit student dies after swim in Ganges

London, A British gap-year student has died days after swimming in the Ganges.

Promising filmmaker Sam Banks collapsed with severe sickness and diarrhoea, The Sun reports.

By the time an ambulance rushed him to hospital in New Delhi, the 20-year-old was dead.

Last night his teacher mum Louise, 49, said: “We’re devastated. He had such a bright future.”

Father Graham said: “I understand from friends out there that he had been swimming in the Ganges.”

The day before he died, Sam learned he had been accepted to study film at the London College of Communication.

He had a brother and two sisters.

His body has been flown home to Steep, Hants, for a second autopsy. (ANI)