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The bodies of each the 5 persons who drowned successful Tungabhadra stream adjacent Mantralayam connected Saturday evening were retrieved by rescue workers connected Sunday. Rescue workers besides fished retired the assemblage of an unidentified idiosyncratic during the search.
The 5 deceased, hailing from Anantapur and Kurnool districts and Hyderabad successful neighbouring Telangana, came to Mantralayam to be a household function. After attending a spiritual ritual, they, on with immoderate others, entered the stream waters.
The calamity occurred erstwhile six members were swept distant by currents arsenic they entered heavy wrong the stream aft reportedly misjudging the extent of the water. While 5 persons drowned, Aparna of Adoni managed to travel retired of the waters.
Assisted by adept swimmers and section fishermen, the rescue teams searched for the victims passim the nighttime and managed to hint them by Sunday afternoon. The deceased were identified arsenic Satish (35) and his five-year-old lad Yuvan Chandra from Hyderabad, Raghavendra (25) and Dhanu (23) from Mantralayam, and Sandhya (22) from Uravakonda successful Anantapur district. Police said the bodies were recovered from antithetic locations downstream the stream and were handed implicit to household members aft formalities.
Meanwhile, the rescue workers recovered the assemblage of an unidentified idiosyncratic aged astir 70 during the hunt operation. Police are trying to ascertain the individuality of the person.
