Two boys drowned in a lake at Balluru village in Attibele on the outskirts of Bengaluru on Saturday evening.
Their bodies were recovered on Sunday afternoon by the Fire and Emergency Services personnel.
The victims were identified as Aniket Kumar 8, a class 3 student and a native of Bihar, and Rehmat Baba, 11, a class 4 student from Andhra Pradesh. Both were children of daily wage labourers living in the area.
According to police, the boys had gone to play near the lake bund and were believed to have entered the waterbody without knowing how to swim.
Their parents began a search when the duo did not return home. Villagers who had seen them near the lake alerted the families, and rescue efforts were launched the next morning.
The Attibele police have registered a case of unnatural death.
Published – November 09, 2025 09:44 pm IST
