2 schoolgirls drown

Trichy: Two school girls drowned in a tank near

Manachanallur

town in

Trichy

on Sunday. The deceased are

B Sathya

, 13, and V Kanishka, 14, of Sengudi street in Thiruvellarai. The girls were in class VII and class VIII at

Thiruvellarai Government High School

. On Sunday, the girls went to Singakulam tank in Thiruvellaarai for a leisure dip where other villagers were also bathing. As the two girls went missing, the villagers searched the tank and fished out the girls from the water in an unconscious state. Manachanallur police registered a case.