Five Telangana youths today lost their lives after drowning in the Kondapochamma Sagar reservoir in the Markook mandal of the Siddipet.
Seven youths had fallen into the dam, and two of them escaped safely. The remaining five lost their lives.
The deceased have been identified as Dhanush (20), Lohith/Lucky (17), Chikatla Dineshver (17), Sahil (19) and Jatin (17). The names of those who escaped are Komari Mrigank (17) and Md Ibrahim (20).
All the deceased were natives of the Musheerabad area of Hyderabad.
Ace swimmers launched a search operation as soon as news of the incident broke out, but could only bring the bodies ashore.
The police rushed to the spot and shifted the bodies to a government hospital for post-mortems. Their parents were informed about their deaths.