Six boys drown in River Amaravathi at Dharapuram

In a tragic incident, six boys, including five school students, drowned while bathing in River Amaravathi at Dharapuram in Tiruppur district on Monday.According to the police, the victims M. Amirtha K

In a tragic incident, six boys, including five school students, drowned while bathing in River Amaravathi at Dharapuram in Tiruppur district on Monday.

According to the police, the victims M. Amirtha Krishnan, 18, R. Sridhar, 17, R. Ranjith, 20, T. Yuvan, 19, T. Mohan, 17, and M. Chakkaravarman, 18, hailing from Annamalai Garden locality in Iduvai near Tiruppur, were part of a group on pilgrimage to the Muniyappan temple in Mambarai near Oddanchatram in Dindigul district.

Around 30 residents of the locality had gone to the temple in two vehicles on Monday. While returning from the temple, 13 boys from the group travelled in a vehicle and the remaining 17 elders boarded the second vehicle. Around 4 p.m., the boys stopped the vehicle near Athupalam and eight of them — Ranjith, a college student, and the rest studying in various classes — decided to take a dip in the Amaravathi.