Two persons drowned after they accidentally slipped into a 'Krishi Honda,' agricultural pond, in the district on Tuesday evening. They have been identified as Chandan (18) and Kiran (13), residents of Athaguru village of Maddur taluk.
According to the police, they had gone to a farmland on Tuesday evening. When they failed to return even after midnight, the villagers launched a search for them on Wednesday morning and found their bodies floating in the Krishi Honda. They informed the police, who recovered the bodies and shifted them to a hospital for post-mortem.
They might have slipped into the pond and drowned, the Kesthuru police said. A case of unnatural death has been registered.