: Three school students, all aged below 10, who had been reported missing, were Saturday found drowned in a water-filled ditch at Nagaram in Nizamabad district of Telangana, police said.
The boys were suspected to have accidentally fallen into the ditch dug many years ago near their state-run school, a senior police official told PTI.
The three did not return home on Friday following which their parents lodged a complaint, the official said.
The bodies were fished out and handed over to their families, the official said adding that they held a demonstration demanding compensation from the state government over the incident.
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