Three children in Telangana’s Nagarkurnool district allegedly drowned while swimming in a village pond on Thursday evening, the police said.
The police have identified the deceased as A Ganesh Reddy, 13, his sister A Rakshitha, 10, and B Shravan Kumar, 7. The siblings, children of A Dharma Reddy and Savitha, had come from Hyderabad to their native Peddakothapally village for summer vacation, while Shravan Kumar, a Class 2 student at the local primary school, hailed from the same locality, the police said.
Farmers in the surrounding area retrieved the bodies of the children and shifted them to the Nagarkurnool government hospital. The bodies were handed over to the families on Friday after post-mortem, the police said.
According to the police, the children who were playing near the pond, along with three other children, entered the water body around 5 pm.
“Due to deep waters, the children accidentally drowned even as the three others called for help from nearby shepherds. The children could not be saved,” Sub-Inspector V Satish of Peddakothapally police station.
The local people who noticed clothes on the bund of the pond informed Rajesh, the elder brother of Shravan Kumar, who was grazing buffaloes nearby.
Ganesh and Rakshitha were studying in Classes 7 and 5, respectively, at Saraswathi Shishu Mandir in Bandlaguda, Hyderabad, the police said.
The police have registered a case under Section 194 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS).
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In a similar incident earlier on March 30, a woman and her three minor children had drowned to death in Venkatapur village of Kamareddy district where the woman was washing clothes in the well and her three children entered the water to take a bath. When the children started drowning, the mother tried to rescue them and died along with them in the process.
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