Hyderabad: An 11-year-old boy from Kapra and his eight-year-old cousin from Guntur, who went missing on Wednesday from Arundhati Nagar in Jawaharnagar, were found dead in a water-filled abandoned quarry nearby on Wednesday. Police suspect the boys drowned while playing in the water. Both did not know swimming.Durga Prasad (11) was a class III student and Subramanyam (8) was in class I.About a month ago, Durga Prasad’s mother Swathi, who was abandoned by her husband, had come to live with her ailing aunt Yadamma in Arundhati Nagar Colony. A few days ago, Yadamma’s daughter Anjamma, who lives in Guntur, came to visit her mother along with son Subramanyam. At around 10 am on Wednesday, Durga Prasad and Subramanyam had left home to play in the neighbourhood but did not return.After unsuccessfully searching for them in the neighbourhood, Swathi lodged a complaint with Jawaharnagar police on Thursday morning. While police were searching for the boys, their bodies surfaced in the abandoned Bandabavi quarry located in Arundhati Nagar Colony. “The quarry was abandoned about two decades ago. Half of its boundary has been fenced. The boys were not locals and they might have accidentally drowned while trying to play in the water,” SI B Ramu said. The bodies have been sent for postmortem.
