Three youth drown in temple pond in Tiruvallur
Three youth who had come to participate in the temple festival in Tiruvallur drowned and died on Tuesday ( May 6, 2025) morning.
A senior official of the Tiruvallur police said Hariharan (16), Venkatramanan (17) and Veeraraghavan (24), who were studying Vedic studies in the Ahobila Mutt in Selaiyur, had gone to participate in the Brahmotsavam festival being celebrated in Sri Vaidhya Veeraraghava Swamy temple in Tiruvallur. On Tuesday morning, the three youth had gone to the temple pond to perform their daily religious ritual when one person fell into the pond and drowned. The two youths seeing their friend battling for life tried to save him and they also drowned.
Based on the alert by the temple authorities fire and rescue services personnel from Tiruvallur station rushed to the pond and removed the bodies of the three persons.
The Tiruvallur city police have sent the bodies to the Tiruvallur District Government Medical College Hospital for post mortem.
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