Three meet watery grave in backwaters of KRS Dam

NT Correspondent

Mysuru: Three persons from Mysuru who went for a picnic, met a watery grave in the backwaters of KRS in Srirangapatna taluk in Mandya district on Sunday.

According to the police, the deceased have been identified as Nanjunda(18), Jyothi (18) and Harish(32), an employee of Karunya Trust, an NGO, in Mysuru, meant for promotion of educational activities of orphaned children.

The other two are orphans sheltered by Karunya Trust. A batch of 15 persons including Karunya Trust staff went for a picnic to KRS Dam.

The incident took place when they went to swim near the KRS backwaters after sightseeing at Brindavan Gardens and having darshan at Venugopalaswamy temple which is located near KRS backwaters.

KRS Police who registered the case told News Trail that the bodies of Jyothi, Nanjunda were fished out by taking the help of expert swimmers.

They are continuing the operation to fish out Harish’s body. A case related to this has been registered at KRS police station.