Nine persons met with a watery grave and some others went missing in different drowning incidents in Telangana on Friday, plunging their families into grief on the holy Mahasivaratri festival.
According to the police, on the occasion of the festival, five youths entered the river Godavari at Mulkal village under Hajipur mandal of Mancherial district in the morning for a holy dip. While three drowned, two managed to escape death. The police have fished out one body and are searching for others.
In Bhadradri Kothagudem district, four youths - Gude Prem Kumar, Alli Nagendrababu and Tantrapalli Murali and Bhongir Pavan, all aged 22 - drowned while taking a dip in the Godavari at Chintala Bayyaram village. The police recovered the bodies of all four persons.
In another drowning incident, two polytechnic students drowned after going swimming in the Peddacheruvu at Shameerpet in Medchal district on Friday morning. The bodies of Vishnu and Sairam, both 18, were recovered.
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