Mangalore, May 27, 2014: According to the police reports, M Pavan Kumar (23), a resident of Ninthikallu of Nekkiladi and Vijayakumar(30), a resident of Karkunja in Puttur,drowned while taking bath in Kumaradhara river at Nakooru Gaya near Kadaba.
Pavan was working in Mangalore and Vijaykumar was an auto driver. It is said that Vijaykumar had come to take part in the nemotsava in a house, seeing him drowning, Pavan rushed to his rescue and both drowned.