Chennai: The bodies of two teenaged boys who drowned in the Marina Beach on Saturday evening were spotted and brought to the shore during an operation by the Indian Coast Guard on Sunday.
According to the police, the two boys drowned in the bay on Saturday evening when they went beat the heat with their friends. An Indian Coast Guard helicopter traced the bodies on Sunday afternoon.
Police identified the victims as Srinivasan (17) and Sivagurunatha (14), inmates of a children’s home on Velachery Main Road. Srinivasan was an Industrial Training Institute (ITI) student while Sivagurunathan was a class VIII student in a private school.
The victims were part of a group of students from the home that visited the Marina beach. Around 5.30 pm, when the boys were playing on the beach behind Gandhi statue, a giant wave sucked the two away, police said. The other boys panicked and alerted the locals nearby. Police and personnel from the Fire and Rescue department rushed to the scene on information and attempted to rescue the boys, but in vain. The Coast Guard Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre, Chennai was also alerted by the police.
The search for the bodies was continued on Sunday with Indian Coast Guard helicopters flying for nearly three hours before the two bodies were spotted and then recovered, police said. The bodies were handed over to the Marina police and later sent to the Government Royapettah Hospital for post mortem.
