more-inTIRUNELVELITwo boys drowned in a tank near Tirunelveli Town on Sunday afternoon. Police said S. Sudhakar (10) and his friend E. Petchimuthu (9), both from Pandiapuram near Pettai, were reportedly playing near their houses on Sunday afternoon. After their search for the boys did not yield any positive result, the parents filed separate complaints at Pettai police station around 7 p.m.On Monday morning, the police received information that bodies of the two boys were floating in an irrigation tank in nearby Malayalamedu. Since the irrigation tank is bone-dry, the farmers, who were getting water from it, recently desilted it with their contributions and dug a pit in the waterbody. The boys might have entered into the pit to bath, the police said.

Source: The Hindu July 03, 2017 12:33 UTC