drowned when they went for a bath in a pond at village Jamurto, under Mirza police station of Assam today, police said.
When the boys did not return home after they went missing this afternoon, the family searched for them and informed the police, the sources said.
Police accompanied by a nearby NDRF camp personnel searched the area and recovered the bodies of the two boys from the tank, the sources said.
The two friends and students of class eight were identified as Pallab Das and Dhruba Das (both 13) and did not know how to swim, they added.