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.
The operation was conducted till nightfall and later suspended due to darkness. Officials said the search will resume on Thursday.
A search will be conducted using a drone camera on Thursday. Diving experts from outside the district will also be called in to search, said Police officials.
Gangavathi Sub-Division DySP Siddalingappa Gowda Patil, Gangavathi Rural Police Station PI Somashekar Juttal and fire brigade personnel from Gangavathi and Koppal have been deployed at the spot.
Ananya, who was working as a doctor at VKC Hospital in Hyderabad, had arrived at a private guest house near Sanapur on Tuesday evening to spend vacation with his friends Ashita and Satwik.
The three had gone swimming in the Tungabhadra River behind the guesthouse. Locals said that the doctor was swept away by the force of the river's water.
The footage of the doctor's final moments was captured on his friend's mobile phone. The rural police have gathered preliminary information about this.
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