Three students drown in water storage sump in T''gana
Hyderabad (PTI): Three students, including two girls drowned in a water storage sump in an agricultural land in Nagarkurnool district of Telangana on Sunday, police said.
The incident occurred in Mucharlapalli village of Urkonda mandal when a group of children went to the water storage sump to play and swim, where three of them accidentally drowned while a 12-year-old girl was rescued.
The deceased are two girl students--aged 14 and 17--studying class 8 and Intermediate respectively and a 12 year-old boy studying sixth class, police said.
The bodies were shifted to Kalwakurthy for post-mortem, police added.
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Kerala girl goes missing at Manikyadhara falls, search underway
Chikkamagaluru (Karnataka) (PTI): A search operation was launched after a class 10 student from Kerala went missing during a family trip to Manikyadhara Falls in the Chandradrona hill range, police said on Wednesday.
The girl was part of a group of around 40 relatives who had travelled from Palakkad, officials added.
According to police, she went missing at around 5.30 pm on Tuesday while at the falls with her family. The family searched for her until about 8 pm before informing the authorities.
After receiving the report, police and forest department personnel launched a search operation in the area, a senior officer said. The search continued through the night, he added.
Thermal drones were deployed to locate the girl until around 4.30 am.
Disaster management teams joined the operation on Wednesday morning, and the search is ongoing, the officer said.
He noted that the area is usually crowded and expressed hope that the girl would be found soon.
The officer also cited a recent incident in Kodagu district, where a 36-year-old woman from Kerala went missing while trekking in the Tadiandamol hills and was later traced and reunited with her family.
