Two siblings found dead in Noyyal river

Coimbatore: An 11-year-old boy and his seven-year-old brother, who had gone fishing on Sunday evening, were found dead under the Noyyal River bridge in Tirupur on Monday.
The deceased were identified as B Mohammed Sameer and his younger brother Mohammed Zahir of Gurunatha Gounder Street in Tirupur. Sameer was a Class VI student and Zahir was in Class II. Their father Basheer Ahmed, 37, is a wall painter and mother Shabitha Banu, a home maker.
After the parents filed a missing complaint, Tirupur south police personnel who launched a search for the boys, failed to find them on Sunday. Police received information about the bodies under the bridge around 9am on Monday and retrieved them from the river.
The bodies were sent to the Tirupur Medical College and Hospital for postmortem and were handed over to the family on Monday afternoon. Police have registered a case.