TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – A search team has recovered the body of a student from Myanmar following a NT$1,000 (US$31) bet to swim across a river in New Taipei City, reports said Wednesday (April 17).

Three men and a woman from Myanmar went to the Emerald Riverside Park in Yonghe District on Monday (April 15) evening to drink and chat, per the Liberty Times. Before jumping into the water themselves, two of the students told their companion, who was known to be afraid of the water, they would give him NT$1,000 if he swam the 150 meters across Xindian Creek to Taipei City.

The female student left to rest at the school dormitory, leaving her friend, surnamed Pan (版), alone in the park. When the two male swimmers returned to the site, they could only find Pan’s backpack, which they took with them to the Mass Rapid Transit station. On their way there, they found Pan’s clothes and phone were inside the backpack.

They returned to the banks of the river but found no trace of him, leading them to alert their school. A search for the missing student with a boat and a drone resulted in the discovery of his body in the water on the Taipei City side of the river Wednesday noon.

Pan’s relatives identified the body via video conferencing, with the authorities saying a further investigation would determine the cause of death of the 23-year-old.