Siblings fall into quarry pond while fishing, drown in Tirupur

COIMBATORE: Two school students, who were siblings, drowned in an abandoned stone quarry pond at Golden Nagar in Tirupur on Wednesday while fishing.
The Tirupur north police said 13-year-old Sathya and his younger brother 11-year-old Kumaran, both students of a government school, had on Wednesday gone to the stone quarry pond near their house after the studies to catch fish with their parents’ permission.
When the children didn’t return home after it fell dark, a police officer said, their parents and neighbours went in search for them.
After a brief search, the officer said, they found the boys’ cycles and clothes abandoned outside the stone quarry pond.
Suspecting that the children might have drowned, they alerted the fire and rescue services personnel, who rushed to the place and retrieved the bodies of the boys.
The Tirupur north police have registered a case of accidental drowning.
“The boys may have fallen into the pond while removing or changing the fishing bait,” the officer said.