Three boys drown in tank

They had arrived for their grandmothers funeral

In a tragic incident three of the four boys who went swim in a tank near Kaarahalli in Bangarpet, drowned on Wednesday.

All the boys had arrived with their parents to attend their grandmother’s funeral.

The boys are identified as Afreed Baig (12), son of  Peer Baig, a resident of Mugabalu village near Bangalore; Rehmatulla Sharief (11), a resident of Bommanahalli on Hosur road and Shohit Khan (13), a resident of Singanuru in Hosakote taluk.

After attending their grandmother’s funeral the boys decided to swim in the nearby tank.
Off the four boys, one returned shore while other three swam to the middle of the tank.

But to due the quicksand the boys couldn’t make it to the shore and drowned.

As soon as the news reached local police they availed the services of fire brigade personnel from Kolar Gold Fields. After one hour search operations fire brigade personnels- Jayaram Singh, Manjunath, Satish, Povappa and Charan retrieved the bodies.

The bodies were sent for the post mortem. Based on the complaint filed by the parents of the boys, a case was registered by the Sub-Inspector C B Shivaswamy.

Circle Inspector G Keshavamurthy and Fire Brigade officer Basava Prabhu Shrama visited the spot.