Mumbai, June 1 (UNI) Four teenage boys died after drowning while swimming in Pazhar Lake near Chakan in Pune district, officials confirmed on Sunday.All four bodies were recovered from the water on Saturday evening.
The boys were reportedly unable to gauge the depth of the lake while swimming on Saturday. When they failed to return home, their families alerted the authorities.
The victims have been identified as Omkar Babasaheb Hange (13), Shlok Jagdish Mankar (11), Prasad Shankar Deshmukh (11), and Naitik Gopal More (12), all residents of Medankarwadi.
They belonged to families of migrant workers who had relocated to Chakan for employment.
According to police, a search operation was launched after the boys’ clothes and footwear were discovered on the lake’s bank. Local residents, Chakan police, and trekking groups joined the rescue efforts, and by evening, all four bodies were fished out, UNI AAA SSP