Four, including two children, drown as boat capsizes in the Krishna in Palnadu district of Andhra Pradesh

Four persons, including 3 children, drowned successful the Krishna stream and six others were rescued erstwhile the vessel successful which they were travelling capsized, adjacent Konuru colony successful Palnadu territory connected Sunday.

The deceased were identified arsenic Battula Karthik (12), Konatha Chaitanya (26), Gandham Saini (10) and Gandham Sandhya (8). They were autochthonal of Marrichettupalem and Chilakaluripet areas.

They had travel to Konuru to be a relation astatine the location of K. Gangaiah and went connected a vessel thrust aft the function. “Local residents jumped into the water, rescued six persons, and brought them to the bund,” said Ramana, a villager. There were nary lifebuoy jackets oregon different information worldly successful the boat, the villagers said.

Meanwhile, YSRCP president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy expressed daze implicit the mishap and conveyed his condolences to the bereaved families. He appealed to the authorities to widen each assistance to the victims’ families.