Koppal: A lady doctor of a private hospital in Telangana on a vacation with friends washed away while swimming in the Tungabhdra River on Wednesday morning near the Annapurna area in Gangavathi taluk of Koppal district of Karnataka, police said.
The doctor has been identified as Ananya Mohan Rao (26), a resident of the Nampally area of Hyderabad. She was working at VKC Hospital in Hyderabad. Despite a continuous operation to find the body for more than 10 hours, no trace of him has been found.
According to sources, Rao along with her friends, Ashita and Satwik, went to a private guesthouse near Sanapura on Tuesday evening for vacation.
They went to swim in the Tungabhadra River located behind the guesthouse they were put up at. Rao jumped into the river from a nearby rock cliff. Locals said she was washed away due to the strong undercurrent. The location has a rocky terrain as water flows over a km. It is suspected that Rao might have got trapped in the rocks after jumping.
Personnel from the police and fire brigade along with assistance from local people have jointly launched a search operation in the river to retrieve Rao. The footage of the doctor's last moments of jumping off a cliff was captured on her friend's mobile phone.
Gangavathi Rural Police have gathered preliminary information about this and an investigation has been initiated.
"A joint team of personnel from the police, fire department and local swimmers are engaged in the search operation. It can't be confirmed whether she is alive or not amid the ongoing search. The trio from Hyderabad came for a leisure trip on the bank of Tungabhadra and one of them was swept away by the strong undercurrent after jumping from a cliff," a police official said.