Erode:
Four teenaged boys drowned in a slush filled lake at Anadhsagar area while bathing, police said.
The boys, all aged between 13 and 15 years, went to the lake after school on Monday to take a bath. They waded into the lake which has about four feet of slush but were asphyxiated and drowned.
Two of their friends who tried to rescue them also met the same fate. Two other boys raised an alarm and alerted villagers, who rushed to the spot, jumped into the lake and retrieved the bodies of the boys.
The bodies of the children were handed over to their parents this morning after a post-mortem.
The villagers demanded that the Public Works Department desilt the lake to avoid recurrence of such deaths.