Nashik: 3 teens drown in canal

Nashik: Three boys from Gajvakra Nagar, along the Makhamalabad Road, drowned in a

canal

in Panchavati on Tuesday afternoon. The boys had gone for a swim in the canal, however, they failed to gauge the depth of the water and drowned. A fire brigade rescue team rushed to the spot and brought out the boys, but they were declared dead by Nashik civil hospital doctors.

The deceased are Siddhu Ambadas Dhotre (15), Nilesh Kashinath Mule (14) and Pramod Babanrao Jadhav (13). Panchavati police have registered a accidental death case. Panchavati fire brigade officials said they got a call at 2.05 pm and within three minutes, a rescue team, led by fireman S G Bhatwad, reached the spot. While one boy had already been taken out of the water, the rescuers — Govind Tupe, Harish Chaube, of Mahindra and Mahindra’s Igatpuri plant, and Vijay Katore — reached the second boy in the next two minutes. The third boy was untraceable. A boat was deployed and the third boy was brought out.

PSI P A Nemane of Panchavati police station said the boys belonged to working class families. There was one more boy with them who had rushed home to alert people about the

drowning

. Calls were then made to the police and others.