Goemkarponn desk
Mapusa: In a major tragedy near Mapusa on Bodgeshwar Zatra day, as a family lost two of their kids due yo drowning.
The decease are identified as Chandni Rajavat (10) and Piyush Rajvat (5), drowned in a pond of a temple at Verla–Canca.
Mapusa police said the locals alerted them after slippers and a school bag were found on the edge of a pond.
Police informed that both siblings had left the house at around 2.30 pm to go for tuition classes.
Police suspect that two had gone to the pond to remove lotus and in that process they may have fallen into the pond and died in an attempt to save each other.
Police informed that when both the children did not return back by 5.30 pm, mother went to tuition teacher to inquire and discovered that they had not come for classes.
A team of Mapusa fire station headed by fire officer Vishnu Gawas rushed to the spot and removed the bodies.
Sources said the parents of children are native of Madhya Pradesh and have been in Goa for the last four years.