Two girls drown in TN’s Kallakurichi lake while plucking lotus

KALLAKURICHI: Two schoolgirls drowned while plucking lotus flowers in Sitheri lake near Rishivandhiyam on Sunday, while three others were rescued by villagers.

According to police sources, S Swetha (12) and S Sivasakthi (11), residents of Bazar village near Rishivandhiyam, were studying in Class 7 and Class 5, respectively at the government middle school in the same village.

On Sunday, the two girls, along with a group of others, went to play near Sitheri lake. While bathing, five of them, including Swetha and Sivasakthi, entered a deeper part of the lake to pluck lotus without realising the depth, and started drowning.