Kollam | The bodies of two boys, aged 14, who went missing in Kollam district were found in a nearby river on Friday morning, police said.

Police said Pattazhy residents Amal and Adhityan were Class 9 students who studied together at a nearby school, went missing on Thursday.

"They were missing from around 3 pm. Their parents thought they had gone to play with their friends. However, when they didn't return till night, the family approached the police," an official of the Pathanapuram police station told PTI.

Police and locals had searched the locality in the night itself but could not trace the boys.

This morning, the search and rescue teams found the bodies from the Kallada River.

Police suspect that the children might have gone to the river for fishing and accidentally fallen into the water. An enquiry is on.