The screams of two griev­ing moth­ers pierced the air at the Va­len­cia RC Ceme­tery Sat­ur­day as they gave a fi­nal send off to their sons Ju­nior Soogrim, 13 and Ja­son, eight (both broth­ers) af­ter they drowned ex­act­ly one week ago at an aban­doned pool at an il­le­gal quar­ry in Tapana Sankar­ali Road, Va­len­cia.

Mar­tinez Soogrim, the fa­ther of the boys con­soled both moth­ers at the grave­side while he fought back tears. The two young boys drowned while bathing at a 100-foot deep pool at the il­le­gal quar­ry site, not far from home, while in the com­pa­ny of adults and oth­er chil­dren.

Nela Soogrim, Ja­son's moth­er, sobbed qui­et­ly as her son's cof­fin was low­ered in­to the ground. School­mates of both boys al­so at­tend­ed the fu­ner­al with their par­ents.

Ju­nior's moth­er, Chris­tine Ramdeen fond­ly re­mem­bered cel­e­brat­ing her son's 13th birth­day re­cent­ly at her home at Fern Street, Va­len­cia. She re­called his smile and how hap­py he had been at the birth­day par­ty.

Ramdeen re­called how her 13-year-old son begged her to stay at her home last Sun­day, but his fa­ther who came for him that morn­ing said he had al­so planned a birth­day par­ty for him. The boys lat­er ac­com­pa­nied their fa­ther to the gar­den, but lat­er left and joined neigh­bours who took them to the pool with oth­er chil­dren to bathe.

Rel­a­tives of the boys who were lat­er alert­ed to the in­ci­dent pulled their bod­ies from the pool.

The par­ents of the drowned boys were ask­ing the po­lice to in­ves­ti­gate the mat­ter fur­ther.

They are in­sist­ing that the adults who wit­nessed the drown­ings should be probed by the po­lice.