Kundapur: There has been yet another case of drowning. Two little girls aged 9 and 12 met a watery grave in a culvert at Mogebettu-Kallandi near Kota June 30, Saturday. The deceased are Sandhya (9), daughter of Tavasi from Tamil Nadu and Dhanalaxmi (12), daughter of Madhesh from Mysore.
The girls studied in a local government school and their families lived in the area since some years. It is suspected that the mishap took place when the girls had been to the culvert to play.
There has been a complaint since long that the several culverts and pits that have been formed in the area due to mining activities are left uncovered resulting in filling of water during monsoons owing to failure of the persons concerned to cover these culverts once they are rendered useless.