Six drown in Godavari river in Telangana

Six people drowned in Godavari river and a boy was rescued by local people when they went to the river to worship and bathe. The incident took place at Pochampad in the Nizamabad district.

Hyderabad (Telangana): Six people drowned in Godavari river in Telangana state on Friday. The incident occurred at the VIP Pushkar Ghat at Pochampad in Nizamabad district.

Police said rescue workers pulled out five bodies while the search was on for the sixth.

The incident occurred when members of three families from different parts of the Nizamabad district went to the river for worship and a holy bath.

According to eyewitnesses, two minors stepped into the water and as they were drowning some of their relatives also jumped in to save them.

Locals saved a boy from drowning while the remaining six drowned. The dead were identified as B. Srinivas (40), his sons Sreekar (14) and Siddharth (16), Raju (24) and Yogesh (16). A search was on for another teenager.

Devotees in large numbers throng the place every Friday for religious rituals and to take a holy bath.

IANS