nagpur the mystery of the missing brothers in kelvad around 45km from city turned into a tragedy when their bodies were fished out from a 15feet deep makeshift well in the premises of a resort near a tourist spot straddling maharashtra and madhya pradesh border on thursday police have as of now ruled out foul play nitin lokhande and his younger brother suraj alias golu had undertaken a contract with the resort to paint the garden furniture and other beautification work they had started the work on tuesday earlier this week the brothers had left for work on wednesday but did not return the family members tried to locate them but they were nowhere to be found kelvad police had registered a missing report too sources said the lokhande brothers were the sole earning members after their father babarao passed away in an accident in 2006 babarao was a home guard the brothers are survived by two younger sisters and a widow mother in the family it was during the search in the morning that the floating sleepers were found on the surface of the water in the abandoned well the well was dug to construct a sewerage tank the tank was not completed but the water accumulated was being used in ongoing civil construction works in the premises police said that nitins body was recovered first followed by his younger brothers the duo were still in the same clothes which they wore during the work assistant police inspector ss kumre of kelvad police station said that there were footmarks on the wet ground near the well the direction of the footmarks clearly indicates that the brothers had walked towards the well there were gnawing marks on their bodies made by the creatures in the water no sharp weapon injuries were found said kumre he said that the brothers apparently went to the well to wash themselves after the work but slipped into it one of the brothers must have fallen into the water which was followed by the other who tried to rescue him said kumre adding that the initial reports of the post mortem too suggests that the deaths of the brothers were due to drowning kelvad police have registered a case as accidental death