15-year-old drowns in sea, friend rescued
A 15-year old, who had ventured into the sea to bathe, drowned at Kasimedu on Thursday night. His friend, a 16-year-old who was also drowning, was saved in the nick of time, said the police.
By : migrator
Update: 2017-09-01 22:14 GMT
Chennai
Both were Class 10 students of a private school in Thondaiyarpet and had gone to the beach with six other friends.
The incident occurred when the students ventured into the sea. After a while, Dinesh could not be found and was assumed to have drowned while the rest of the students rescued a drowning Santhosh and rushed him to Government Stanley Medical College Hospital.
Body found
On Friday morning, Dinesh’s body washed ashore near Kasimedu fishing harbour and was sent to Stanley hospital for a post mortem. The Kasimedu fishing harbour police have registered a case and are investigating it.
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