This story is from November 26, 2020

Karnataka: Five, including 3 brothers, drown in Chikkamagaluru

Five youths, including three brothers, who were attending a post-marriage feast, drowned in a tank in Vastare village, 16km from Chikkamagaluru town and 250km from Bengaluru, on Wednesday.
Karnataka: Five, including 3 brothers, drown in Chikkamagaluru
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CHIKKAMAGALURU: Five youths, including three brothers, who were attending a post-marriage feast, drowned in a tank in Vastare village, 16km from Chikkamagaluru town and 250km from Bengaluru, on Wednesday.
The deceased have been identified as brothers Sudeep, 25, twins Dileep and Deepak, 22, and friends Sandeep, 23, and Raghu, 22, Their bodies were recovered in the evening.
The trio’s parents, Krishnamurthy and Kusuma, were shattered, having lost all their three children in the tragedy.
The brothers from Hancharahalli, near Chikkamagaluru, attended the wedding of their relative, Santhosh, with Sandhya at Vastare on November 20. The villages are 8km apart. On Wednesday, there was baadoota (a non-vegetarian feast after marriage), and the brothers on that occasion befriended Sandeep and Raghu, from Vastare. All five men decided to go for a swim at the village tank.
Those on the bund watched the five men swim for a distance and disappear one after another. When none of the five swam back to the surface for a long time, worried relatives and those from the village launched a search but to no avail.
They informed Aldur police, who rushed in fire and emergency services personnel. After a six-hour search using a boat, the five bodies were recovered by evening. Chikkamagaluru superintendent of police Hakay Akshay Machhindra said they might have got stuck in a sludgy patch and died there.
A dog named Danny was restless as his master Sandeep went missing in the waters. It, too, tried to look for him by moving around the tank.
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