COIMBATORE: Three class 12 students from a village in Coimbatore drowned while taking a bath in a check dam near Alandurai in the district on Wednesday.
The deceased were identified as M Praveen (17), P Kavin (16) and V Dhakshan (17), who hailed from Perur Pachapalayam. They were accompanied by a friend, named Sanjay (21). The police said that the three deceased were studying in Class 12 at the Government Higher Secondary School at Theethipalayam.
They, along with their friend, went to Perumal Kovil Pathy check dam near Alandurai on Wednesday around 4 pm. The four youths ventured into the check dam, which has more than ten feet of water, to take a bath. Police said Praveen, Kavin and Dhakshan did not know how to swim and drowned in the check dam. Sanjay alerted Fire and Rescue Services.
Station Officer PN Anilkumar and Thondamuthur fire station launched a search for the drowned students. The fire brigades retrieved the bodies of the three students by 5.30 pm. The Alandurai police shifted the bodies of the deceased to the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital for post-mortem.
Two kids drown in Tiruppur
Two boys drowned while bathing in a pond at Uppalayam on Tuesday. The deceased were Gokul (8) and his classmate Aswhin (8). The families of both kids initiated a search and found their dresses and bicycles near a pond at East Uppalayam. A team of fire service personnel retrieved both the kids’ bodies from pond.