Four youngsters from Hyderabad drown in Bidar

Hyderabad: Four youngsters from Borabanda in the city were drowned at Bidar where they had gone to visit a dargah, on Sunday. The four youngsters identified as Junaid Khan, Syed Junaid, Fahad and Hyder, who are relatives had gone to Hazrat Ismail Shah Quadri Dargah located at Ghorwadi village in Bidar along with their family […]

Hyderabad: Four youngsters from Borabanda in the city were drowned at Bidar where they had gone to visit a dargah, on Sunday.

The four youngsters identified as Junaid Khan, Syed Junaid, Fahad and Hyder, who are relatives had gone to Hazrat Ismail Shah Quadri Dargah located at Ghorwadi village in Bidar along with their family members.

After the rituals were over, the boys went to the lake to take a bath and waded to the deep end, despite not knowing how to swim, the Bidar police said. When one of them started drowning, the others went to his rescue, but all of them met a watery grave.

While two are brothers, the other two were cousins, police said. Their bodies were fished out by Fire and Emergency Services personnel.

On coming to know about the news, a pall of gloom descended at Habeeb Fatima Nagar in Borabanda where the families stay. A local resident said that a few of the relatives who were staying in the city left for Bidar on coming to know about the sad news.

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