Authorities in Mumbai, on Tuesday, said that rescuers have found the bodies of two of the four boys who went missing in the sea off Mumbai's Juhu Koliwada. The bodies of 16-year-old Dharmesh Valji Faujiya and 15-year-old Shubham Yogesh Bhogniya have been recovered, a civic official said.
The two were part of a group of five friends, aged between 12 and 16 years, who ventured into the sea, about half a kilometre from the shore, around 5.30 pm on Monday but could not return.
While one of them was rescued, the others were feared drowned.
The bodies were taken to Cooper Hospital, where the doctors declared them brought dead. the Mumbai Police, BMC fire brigade with speedboats, along with an Indian Navy chopper searched for the boys till almost midnight.
The boys, who lived in a slum area of Vakola, had slipped off for an impromptu half-day picnic to Juhu late on Monday afternoon.
Authorities, in light of the landfall of cyclone Biparjoy, on the Gujarat coast on June 15, have issued a warning to residents and fishermen against venturing into the sea.
