Two children, aged 11 and 4, drowned in a pond at Kovadi near Tindivanam on Thursday. The names of the victims were given as R. Hemalatha and her cousin R. Ramakrishnan alias Devesh of Kovadi village.
According to the police, the children stepped into the pond to bathe when they were trapped in the slush and drowned. When they failed to return after sometime, the villagers launched a search and found their bodies floating in the pond.
The bodies were sent to the Villupuram Government Medical College and Hospital at Mundiyambakkam for post-mortem. A case has been registered.
