KOLKATA: Two class IX and X students of South Point School, who had qualified for the inter-school regatta scheduled on Sunday, drowned during a practice session at Rabindra Sarobar when their boat capsized after being caught in the nor’wester on Saturday evening. Their bodies were recovered by rescue divers nearly three hours later.
Police said Pushan Sadhukhan (14) and Souryadeep Chatterjee (14) — trainees at Lake Club — were rowing with three other teenagers when their boat was caught in the squall around 4.30 pm and capsized, plunging the youths into the water. Among the five in the boat, one was a cox and the rest were rowers. The two were rowers, at the oars. While three of them swam ashore, Sadhukhan and Chatterjee went missing. Though the duo also knew to swim, rescuers fear they may have panicked in the trying conditions.
