India, June 1 -- Four teenage boys drowned while swimming in a percolation tank in Kadachiwadi near Chakan on Saturday. The deceased have been identified as Omkar Babasaheb Hange,13, Shlok Jagdish Mankar, 11, Prasad Shankar Deshmukh, 11, and Naitik Gopal More, 12, all residents of Medankarwadi.

Pramod Wagh, senior police inspector at Chakan police station said, "At around 11 am a group of four boys left home. Later they entered the water to swim but were unable to gauge its depth, which led to all four of them drowning."

When they did not return home, their parents approached the police. During the search, their clothes and footwear were found at the bank of the pond. Immediately a team of Chakan police, local trekking groups were rushe...