Seven persons including three women lost their lives when they went to Charikonda Gowramma Cheruvu (tank) in Amangal Mandal of Mahabubnagar District for swimming and drowned. The incident took place Wednesday afternoon, and it was said that all the victims belonged to one family.
Police said that the family members and relatives of one Basith of Hashmabad area near Chandrayangutta in Hyderabad went to the tank for swimming. When some of the victims got into the water and started drowning, other members jumped in to the tank to rescue the drowning persons. Thus, seven persons got drowned and lost their lives.
The police recovered six bodies, identified as Rukhya, Masrath, Muskan, Basku, Rahman and Munna. Search was going on to fish out the other body. (NSS)