Two boys, aged 12, drowned in the Kothanur Dinne Lake at JP Nagar 8th Phase.
The Konanakunte police have identified them as Harish and Puneeth, both residents of Chunchaghatta, and Class VIII students.
After returning from school on Thursday, the boys told their parents they were going for a music programme, but headed to the lake instead. When the boys didn't return, the families got worried. They frantically searched for them, but the efforts proved futile.
Around 12.30 pm on Friday, Madhusudhan, who is related to one of the families, went to the lake and saw Puneeth's clothes lying around. He called the fire brigade, and informed the families, too. Emergency services' personnel fished out the bodies, which were shifted to KIMS Hospital for
postmortem.
The police have registered a case of negligence against the lake authorities as there was no security personnel present at the waterbody.
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