Overview

• The students, all in eighth grade, drowned around 11 am on June 5 while swimming during summer vacation in a pond in Motlapalli village of V.Kota Mandal, Chittoor district.
• Only one of the boys, Kushal, knew how to swim which led the others to cling to him upon reaching a six-foot deep section.
• Two of the victims, Nikhil and Jagan, were from the same family.
• Two boys died at the scene and the third succumbed to injuries en route to hospital.
• Police registered a case under Section 194 of the BNSS as part of an investigation into the accidental deaths.