Two school students and a teenager drowned in separate incidents last weekend.
M. Gokula Kannan (12), a 7{+t}{+h}standard student from Vellalore went for a swim in water collected in an abandoned stone quarry at Pattanam with two of his friends on Saturday, where he drowned. Sulur police registered a case and handed over his body to his father K. Mani (43), a police head constable, after post-mortem on Sunday.
Y. Jabes (15), a 10{+t}{+h}standard student of Ettiyar Estate in Valparai, went to Koolangal River for a swim, on Saturday, and drowned. Valparai Police said that his body was handed over to his mother Yasodha (35), a widow.
In another incident, D. Ganesh Kumar (19), a mechanic from Madukkarai went to Aliyar Dam with his friends on Sunday and drowned near the Boat House.