3 boys drown during immersion of Ganesh idols in 2 dists

Berhampur/Kendrapada: Two 11-year-old boys drowned in a pond during the immersion of a Ganesh idol at Panchama village in Ganjam district on Monday. The deceased were identified as Aditya Sethi, son of Binod Sethi, and Sumya Pradhan, son of Krushna Chandra Pradhan. Both studied in Class VI in the local school, sources said. Several children of the village were participating in the idol immersion ceremony in a pond near the Ganesh temple when the two boys slipped into the water and drowned.Locals rescued the boys and shifted them to MKCG Medical College and Hospital, where doctors declared them dead, police said.
In Jagatsinghpur district, a 17-year-old boy drowned in the Budha river during immersion of Ganesh idol on Monday. The deceased was identified as Ritesh Swain of Mangarajpur village. He was a Plus II science student of a private college in Tirtol. The incident took place when Ritesh along with other students of the college were immersing the idol.TNN