Kendrapara, Mar 5: In a tragic incident, two Class VI students drowned in a pond in Mahakalapada block of Odisha’s Kendrapara district.
The deceased minors have been identified as Durga Prasad Mahapatra and Dipanshu Mahapatra and the incident has been reported from Bandhakuda village in the block.
As per reports, the victims had gone to play after tuition classes on Tuesday evening and did not return home.
Worried about their whereabouts, family members and villagers launched a frantic search and found their bodies floating in the pond.
They rescued the minors and rushed them to a nearby hospital, where the attending doctors declared them dead.
Upon getting the information, police arrived at the scene and seized the bodies. Subsequently, they were sent for post-mortem.
A pall of gloom has descended in the village following the incident.
