Tirunelveli (Tamil Nadu) Sep 15 (PTI) Three students of a diocesan run school situated in the outskirts of Palayamkottai drowned in a newly inaugurated flood carrier channel here on Sunday, police said.

The victims drowned in the Tamiraparani-Karumaeniyar-Nambiyar river linking project under the Munneerpallam police station limits.

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The three, who came here to attend the house warming ceremony of their relative went to the nearby channel to take bath and drowned.

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On receiving the information, Fire and Rescue services personnel fished out the bodies of the three students.

Munneerpallam police registered a case and are investigating.

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