Coimbatore: Two school students, who were siblings, drowned in the pond of an abandoned stone quarry in Golden Nagar Tiruppur While fishing on Wednesday.
Tiruppur North Police said that 13-year-old Satya and his younger brother 11-year-old Kumaran, both students of a government school, went to a stone quarry pond near their home on Wednesday after studying for fishing with their parents. Were. ‘ the permission.
When the children did not return home after dark, a police officer said, their parents and neighbors went looking for them.
After a brief search, the officer said, they found the boys’ bicycles and clothes left outside the pond of the stone quarry.
Suspecting the children to be drowning, they alerted the fire and rescue services personnel, who reached the spot and retrieved the bodies of the boys.
Tirupur North Police has registered a case of accidental drowning.
“The boys may have fallen into the pond while removing or changing the fishing bait,” the official said.
Tiruppur North Police said that 13-year-old Satya and his younger brother 11-year-old Kumaran, both students of a government school, went to a stone quarry pond near their home on Wednesday after studying for fishing with their parents. Were. ‘ the permission.
When the children did not return home after dark, a police officer said, their parents and neighbors went looking for them.
After a brief search, the officer said, they found the boys’ bicycles and clothes left outside the pond of the stone quarry.
Suspecting the children to be drowning, they alerted the fire and rescue services personnel, who reached the spot and retrieved the bodies of the boys.
Tirupur North Police has registered a case of accidental drowning.
“The boys may have fallen into the pond while removing or changing the fishing bait,” the official said.
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