Three Students drowned to death in Amani Lake in Outskirts of city

Dr.Thomas (Special Correspondent)

Rresidents of Doddaballapura town sunk in gloom after the police recovered the bodies of three high school boys drowned in Amani lake in the outskirts of the city on Saturday.

The deceased have been identified as Karthik,15,from Kerekodi road Guruprasad,16 and Dhanush,10 from Shidlaghatta road .

The trio was students of government high school, ventured out of the house after school for fishing and did not return.

When the parents found the boys did not return even after evening,they started searching the boys and approached the police.

However on Sunday morning passers-by found the abandoned bicycles on the lake side and a body of a boy floating and alerted the police.

The Police rushed to the spot and with the help of fire and emergency service personnel rushed to the spot and recovered the other two bodies .

Police suspect that the trio ventured into the water for fishing and slipped due to shallow water.

The residents vent their ire on civic officials concerned for taking precautionary measures after deseliting the lakes.

The Doddaballapura police have taken up a case of un-natural death and awaiting post mortem report for further investigations.