Two students of the Government High School at Chikkanna Kuppam village near Vaniyambadi town in Tirupattur on Tuesday evening drowned in an open pit that got filled up in rain within the campus.
Police said the victims were V. Rajalakshmi (14), and G. Monika (10),.class nine and six students in the school respectively. The students came to the campus after school hours to play when they mistakenly fell into the open pit, which is around 10 feet deep, in the campus.
The open pit got filled up due to recent rains in the area. As the duo did not return home after long hours, parents searched. Based on the alert, Ambalur police and residents searched for the students and later they fished them out of the pit. The incident happened around 6.30 p.m on Tuesday. Bodies were sent to Government Taluk Hospital in Vaniyambadi. A case has been filed.
