<p>Two teenagers who went for a swim in a pond at the Palace Grounds drowned on Sunday afternoon. <br /><br /></p>.<p>The deceased have been identified as Ramesh, 17 and Maniratnam, 14, both residents of Seshadripuram. Maniratnam was a class IX student in Bharat Seva Dal School on Kumarakrupa Road. The bodies of the two teenagers are yet to be traced.<br /><br />According to police, Ramesh and Maniratnam went for a swim in the pond along with five other friends on Sunday noon. While the two boys met a watery grave their friends panicked and fled. They returned only in the night and reported the incident to their parents.<br /><br />Ramesh’s father, Venkatappa, told Deccan Herald, that his son had left home at about 11:30 am and that he had not informed the family that he was going out for a swim. <br /><br />“We were worried a lot when he did not return home even by late evening. We were only told about what had happened later that night when we checked with his friends.” <br />Venkatappa said he immediately alerted the police and rushed to the pond. However, rescue operations could not be taken up due to darkness.<br /><br />The High Grounds police, in co-ordination with a specialised rescue team from the Fire and Emergency Services finally launched a search operation on Monday morning, were unsuccessful till evening. <br /><br />“It has been nearly 36 hours since the boys went missing,” a senior official and added that chances that the boys had survived were slim. <br /><br />Hit by ambulance<br /><br />A speeding ambulance mowed down an elderly woman who was grazing cattle by the side of the road on Hesaraghatta Lake Road on Monday afternoon. <br /><br />The deceased has been identified as Muttamma, 70, a resident of Hesaraghatta. She was grazing cows by the roadside when she was struck by the ambulance coming from the opposite direction. Muttamma was killed on the spot, police said. <br /><br />The ambulance driver abandoned the vehicle on the spot and fled. The ambulance did not have any patients when the accident occurred. Jalahalli Traffic police have registered a case.<br /></p>
<p>Two teenagers who went for a swim in a pond at the Palace Grounds drowned on Sunday afternoon. <br /><br /></p>.<p>The deceased have been identified as Ramesh, 17 and Maniratnam, 14, both residents of Seshadripuram. Maniratnam was a class IX student in Bharat Seva Dal School on Kumarakrupa Road. The bodies of the two teenagers are yet to be traced.<br /><br />According to police, Ramesh and Maniratnam went for a swim in the pond along with five other friends on Sunday noon. While the two boys met a watery grave their friends panicked and fled. They returned only in the night and reported the incident to their parents.<br /><br />Ramesh’s father, Venkatappa, told Deccan Herald, that his son had left home at about 11:30 am and that he had not informed the family that he was going out for a swim. <br /><br />“We were worried a lot when he did not return home even by late evening. We were only told about what had happened later that night when we checked with his friends.” <br />Venkatappa said he immediately alerted the police and rushed to the pond. However, rescue operations could not be taken up due to darkness.<br /><br />The High Grounds police, in co-ordination with a specialised rescue team from the Fire and Emergency Services finally launched a search operation on Monday morning, were unsuccessful till evening. <br /><br />“It has been nearly 36 hours since the boys went missing,” a senior official and added that chances that the boys had survived were slim. <br /><br />Hit by ambulance<br /><br />A speeding ambulance mowed down an elderly woman who was grazing cattle by the side of the road on Hesaraghatta Lake Road on Monday afternoon. <br /><br />The deceased has been identified as Muttamma, 70, a resident of Hesaraghatta. She was grazing cows by the roadside when she was struck by the ambulance coming from the opposite direction. Muttamma was killed on the spot, police said. <br /><br />The ambulance driver abandoned the vehicle on the spot and fled. The ambulance did not have any patients when the accident occurred. Jalahalli Traffic police have registered a case.<br /></p>
