Three teenagers drown in channel near Madurai

MADURAI: Three

teenagers

drowned while bathing in a channel at

Thukkalapatti

in Madurai district of Tamil Nadu on Sunday evening.

The deceased have been identified as R Gopi Krishnan,19, his brother R Kishore Kumar, 18 and their friend

N Hariharan,18

.

The trio were bathing in the channel --

Periya Atru Kalvai

-- with their friends. They drowned while bathing in a deeper section of the channel.

Fire and rescue services personnel recovered the bodies and sent them to

Government Rajaji Hospital

for postmortem.

The Othakadai police registered a case.

Though bathing is prohibited in the channel, youngsters bathe there.