<p>Six children drowned in three separate incidents since Saturday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Harish, 16, a resident of Subhash Nagar, drowned when he went for a swim in a tank at Kyatsandra near Tumkur on Saturday afternoon.<br /><br />The class 10 student of the government high school in Kyatsandra went for a swim in the Kumbarakatte tank behind the Siddaganga Mutt at 3.30 pm and drowned. <br /><br />Two brothers from Siradadu village drowned after they slipped and fell into a tank near Kallambella in Sira taluk on Saturday evening. Prajwal, 11, and Tejas, six, were grazing buffaloes on the banks of the tank. <br /><br />Slipped and fell<br /><br />They slipped and fell into the tank when they took the animals there to drink water.<br />Three schoolchildren drowned in a pond when they accidentally slipped into it at Bondebommanahalli Vadaratti village near Chikkajajur of Holalkere taluk in Chitradurga district on Sunday. <br /><br />All of them are children of agricultural labourers. They are Abhishek, 12, son of Manjappa, Darshan 12, son of Lakshman, and Sagar, 11, son of Thimmappa. <br /><br />All the children were studying in class 5 at a local government school. The incident took place when the students took their cattle to drink water at the pond located in the ‘gomala’ land in their village. <br /><br />The pond was filled to the brim following heavy rain in the region in the last few days. A case has been registered at the Chikkajajur police station.<br /></p>
<p>Six children drowned in three separate incidents since Saturday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Harish, 16, a resident of Subhash Nagar, drowned when he went for a swim in a tank at Kyatsandra near Tumkur on Saturday afternoon.<br /><br />The class 10 student of the government high school in Kyatsandra went for a swim in the Kumbarakatte tank behind the Siddaganga Mutt at 3.30 pm and drowned. <br /><br />Two brothers from Siradadu village drowned after they slipped and fell into a tank near Kallambella in Sira taluk on Saturday evening. Prajwal, 11, and Tejas, six, were grazing buffaloes on the banks of the tank. <br /><br />Slipped and fell<br /><br />They slipped and fell into the tank when they took the animals there to drink water.<br />Three schoolchildren drowned in a pond when they accidentally slipped into it at Bondebommanahalli Vadaratti village near Chikkajajur of Holalkere taluk in Chitradurga district on Sunday. <br /><br />All of them are children of agricultural labourers. They are Abhishek, 12, son of Manjappa, Darshan 12, son of Lakshman, and Sagar, 11, son of Thimmappa. <br /><br />All the children were studying in class 5 at a local government school. The incident took place when the students took their cattle to drink water at the pond located in the ‘gomala’ land in their village. <br /><br />The pond was filled to the brim following heavy rain in the region in the last few days. A case has been registered at the Chikkajajur police station.<br /></p>
