Three persons-- M Nagaraj, his wife Prema and a relative Sukanya, part of a group of 11 tourists, had ventured to take bath in a pond attached to a quarry at Kandashramam, they said.
As they went deep into the pond, they started struggling as they did not know swimming.
Those on the bank tried in vain to rescue them, they said.
The bodies were later recovered.
In another incident, two 15-year-old students studying in the tenth standard drowned in a pond at Kuzhandampatti while learning swimming.
The bodies have been recovered, they added.
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