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TIRUPATI
The State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) connected Saturday (October 25, 2025) retrieved the bodies of 3 boys who got washed distant successful the swirling existent of Swarnamukhi stream connected Friday evening (October 24). The Tirupati agrarian constabulary and SDRF teams toiled for 24 hours, plunging into the stream and braving the dense rains.
It whitethorn beryllium mentioned present that 7 boys had gone for swimming successful the stream to observe the day of 1 of them. However, 4 of them got swept distant owed to the beardown current. The assemblage of 1 lad Balu (18) was recovered immediately, i.e., connected Friday evening.
The section had adjacent deployed drones into work to show the areas abutting the stream banks to find the imaginable survivors, but to nary avail.
With a glimmer of anticipation that the boys mightiness beryllium live and waiting for help, the SDRF teams continued their hunt till Saturday evening, lone to retrieve the bodies of the remaining three, identified arsenic Prakash (17), Chinna (15) and Teju (19). The boys were each successful a akin property group, immoderate studying SSC and the others having dropped retired of Intermediate.
Chandragiri MLA Pulivarthi Venkata Mani Prasad (Nani) and Superintendent of Police L. Subbarayudu were contiguous astatine the stream beforehand monitoring the rescue mission.
Post-mortem was conducted connected each the bodies, which were aboriginal handed implicit to the families. It turned retired that the parents were not alert of the boys’ outing to the river, which was already successful spate. They said that immoderate of them did not cognize swimming.
Mr. Subbarayudu appealed to the parents to perpetually show the question of their children and counsel them to enactment indoors during specified inclement upwind conditions. As a precautionary measure, the constabulary and gross departments person enactment up barricades astatine each susceptible points, particularly adjacent reservoirs, irrigation tanks, causeways and culverts.
