Two 15-year-old boys died when a dilapidated wall of a temple fell on them in Odisha's Ganjam district Saturday, police said.
The incident occurred at Kantiagada village, about 120 km from state capital Bhubaneswar, when a group of children were on a visit to the Bateshwar temple.
The wall collapsed on the boys when they were sitting close to it, police official Ramakanta Mahalik of the Rambha police station told IANS.
While one of the boys died on the spot, the other died in a government hospital.
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