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Four persons, including 2 women, from Karnataka drowned successful the Tungabhadra River adjacent the Rajolibanda Diversion Scheme (RDS) anicut successful Kosigi mandal of Kurnool territory connected Friday.
The victims were among a batch of 15 relatives who were connected the instrumentality travel aft attending a matrimony relation successful Kandukur of Prakasam district.
The Emmiganur Division constabulary said the radical of household members and relatives reached the anicut to person a bath and execute a ritual.
Four radical of the radical were swept distant by beardown undercurrents and drowned, arsenic the remaining members, on with different visitors, watched them helplessly. Frantic attempts by immoderate youths to rescue them proved futile.
Police unit from Kosigi and Emmiganur rushed to the spot and retrieved the bodies from water. The deceased person been identified arsenic Dasari Sivasunanda, Dasari Ratnamma, Dasari Umapathi, and Mahesh, each residents of Kuridi colony of Raichur territory successful Karnataka.
The constabulary person registered a case, and further probe is underway.
The constabulary and gross officials cautioned the visitors against venturing into heavy waters, particularly adjacent anicuts and riverbeds with unpredictable currents.
