Three boys, aged around 16, drowned in the Tunga in Tirthahalli town in Shivamogga district on April 1 evening.
Mohid Iyan, Samar, and Rafan, all classmates, had been to the Tunga at Rama Mantap in the town after breaking the Ramzan fast in the evening. Around 8 p.m., Tirthahalli police received information that the boys drowned.
With the help of local people, the bodies were retrieved from the river around 11 p.m. Hundreds of people gathered at the river bank. The bodies were shifted to the government hospital in the town and later handed over to the families.
The Tirthahalli police have registered an unnatural death report.
