Mangaluru : A 15 year old boy met a watery grave in the Netravathi river at Jalakadakatte near Dharmanagar in Boliyaru village on Saturday afternoon.
The deceased is Fazil, a resident of Nadupadavu near Konaje. His body was retrieved from the river at around 2 pm.
It has been gathered that the boy slipped into the river while washing his hands and feet after picking coconuts from a plantation nearby.