Daijiworld Media Network - Madikeri (SP)

Madikeri, May 22: In two separate cases which happened at Siddapur and Ponnampet in Kodagu district on Wednesday May 20, five including four boys met watery grave.

Two boys and a youth who had visited River Kaveri in Bettadakadu village within Nellihudkeri gram panchayat near Siddapur drowned in the river. Suraj (8), son of Kumar from Bettadakadu, Ganesh (12), son of Raju, also from the same village, and Ravi (24), son of Mani from Chetnalli, drowned in this incident. These two boys, who had been on a visit to the house of a relative, were drowning, when Ravi, who rushed to their rescue, also was washed away.

Two boys who had ventured into Honnikoppalu rivulet in Kirugur village near Ponnampet also drowned. Sachin (12) from Bilugunda, who had come to the house of his grandparents at Kirugur, and Prajwal M (12), a neighbour, had together gone to the rivulet, when both of them drowned.

All the five bodies were recovered on Thursday. After families searched for the missing children for long, they contacted fire brigade personnel. The fire brigade and villagers together found bodies of all the deceased persons on Thursday after a prolonged effort.