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Four School Students Drown in Thiruneermalai Lake Near Chennai
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News18•04-10-2026, 20:30
Four School Students Drown in Thiruneermalai Lake Near Chennai
- •Four school students, Pooja (13), Khushi (13), K Devadarshan (12), and Yuvanesh (10), who went missing on October 3, were found dead in Thiruneermalai lake near Chromepet.
- •The children had gone out to play on Saturday and did not return, leading their parents to file missing-person complaints.
- •Residents discovered the bodies floating in Thiruneermalai Periya Eri on Sunday morning and alerted authorities.
- •Preliminary investigation suggests the children may have drowned after venturing into the lake to bathe and getting trapped in slush.
- •Police have registered a case, and further investigation is underway following the identification of the bodies by family members.
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Preliminary investigation suggests the four children may have ventured into the Thiruneermalai lake to bathe and tragically drowned after getting trapped in the slush.
After missing-person complaints were filed at the Chromepet police station, residents noticed four bodies floating in the Thiruneermalai Periya Eri around 10 am on Sunday and alerted the authorities.
Following their retrieval by the Tamil Nadu Fire and Rescue Services, the bodies were identified by family members and sent to the Tambaram District Government Hospital mortuary.
