<p>Six children drowned in two separate incidents in the State on Saturday. <br /><br /></p>.<p>In the first incident, four children, including three girls, drowned in the Buggi Basavanna tank on Kallur road on the outskirts of the town on Saturday morning. <br /><br />The deceased have been identified as: Pooja Ganapath, 10, Latha Vasanth, nine, Roopa Gudappa, nine and Yuvaraj Badal, seven. They were part of a group of children that left home to fetch firewood. They belonged to a family that resided in a tent at the IDSMT park in the town.<br /><br />On the way, Yuvaraj entered the tank for a swim. When he failed to return, the other three children also went to the tank, and entered the water in an effort to save him. They were washed away. <br /><br />The other children in the group rushed home and informed the parents about the incident.<br /><br />Police and fire personnel came to the spot and, with the help of expert swimmers, retrieved the bodies. <br /><br />Lok Sabha member representing Bidar constituency, Dharam Singh, and MLA Rajashekar B Patil have announced a compensation of Rs one lakh from the chief minister’s relief fund to the kin of each of the children who drowned. Patil provided a personal compensation of Rs 5,000 to perform the last rites of each of the deceased children.<br /><br />Brothers killed<br /><br />In the other incident, two brothers accidentally fell and drowned in a pond dug to immerse Ganesha idols at Gandhinagar in Dharwad on Saturday morning. <br /><br />The deceased have been indetified as: Prajwal Mulgund, seven, and Nagaraj Mulgund, six. Prajwal was studying in class 1 in the Gandhinagar school, while Nagaraj was a pre-nursery student. <br /><br />The brothers, after lighting fire crackers near the pond prior to the idol immersion, stepped back for safety and fell into the seven-foot deep pond. <br /><br />It took almost two hours to fish out the bodies of the children.<br /><br />Some residents blamed the Yuvaka Mandal for digging the pond without proper security measures. <br /><br />“We had advised the Mandal members not to dig the pond in the Samudaya Bhavan premises as it could prove dangerous. But our words went unheeded,” said a resident of the area.</p>
<p>Six children drowned in two separate incidents in the State on Saturday. <br /><br /></p>.<p>In the first incident, four children, including three girls, drowned in the Buggi Basavanna tank on Kallur road on the outskirts of the town on Saturday morning. <br /><br />The deceased have been identified as: Pooja Ganapath, 10, Latha Vasanth, nine, Roopa Gudappa, nine and Yuvaraj Badal, seven. They were part of a group of children that left home to fetch firewood. They belonged to a family that resided in a tent at the IDSMT park in the town.<br /><br />On the way, Yuvaraj entered the tank for a swim. When he failed to return, the other three children also went to the tank, and entered the water in an effort to save him. They were washed away. <br /><br />The other children in the group rushed home and informed the parents about the incident.<br /><br />Police and fire personnel came to the spot and, with the help of expert swimmers, retrieved the bodies. <br /><br />Lok Sabha member representing Bidar constituency, Dharam Singh, and MLA Rajashekar B Patil have announced a compensation of Rs one lakh from the chief minister’s relief fund to the kin of each of the children who drowned. Patil provided a personal compensation of Rs 5,000 to perform the last rites of each of the deceased children.<br /><br />Brothers killed<br /><br />In the other incident, two brothers accidentally fell and drowned in a pond dug to immerse Ganesha idols at Gandhinagar in Dharwad on Saturday morning. <br /><br />The deceased have been indetified as: Prajwal Mulgund, seven, and Nagaraj Mulgund, six. Prajwal was studying in class 1 in the Gandhinagar school, while Nagaraj was a pre-nursery student. <br /><br />The brothers, after lighting fire crackers near the pond prior to the idol immersion, stepped back for safety and fell into the seven-foot deep pond. <br /><br />It took almost two hours to fish out the bodies of the children.<br /><br />Some residents blamed the Yuvaka Mandal for digging the pond without proper security measures. <br /><br />“We had advised the Mandal members not to dig the pond in the Samudaya Bhavan premises as it could prove dangerous. But our words went unheeded,” said a resident of the area.</p>
