Srirangapatna: Three persons including an 18-year-old girl were drowned in KRS backwaters near Venugopalaswamy Temple yesterday. The deceased have been identified as Harish (32), staff of Mysuru’s Karunya Trust, Jyothi (18) and Nanjunda (19), inmates of the Trust, which takes care of poor children.
A total of 25 persons from the Trust located at Roopa Nagar near Bogadi in Mysuru had come to Venugopalaswamy Temple in KRS backwaters on an excursion. A few of them ventured into the backwaters to play during which one Divya began to drown which was noticed by Harish and Nanjunda who jumped into the water and rescued her.
