Representative image of drowning.
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Mumbai: Four teenage boys drowned while swimming at the Pazhar Lake near Chakan area in Khed tehsil of Pune district on Saturday.
The bodies were recovered by local residents.
The deceased were identified as Omkar Babasaheb Hange (13), Shlok Jagdish Mankar (11), Prasad Shankar Deshmukh (11), and Naitik Gopal More (12), all residents of Medankarwadi.
Police said that they were not able to gauge the depth of the water body.
When they did not return home, their parents approached the police.
During the search, their clothes and footwear were found at the bank of the pond. Immediately a team of Chakan police, local trekking groups were rushed to the spot and by the evening, all dead bodies were recovered from the water.
The deceased boys hail from families of migrant workers who shifted to Chakan for jobs.