Eight youngsters drowned within the Godavari river in Kamini Lanka island of Mummidivaram mandal (block) in Andhra Pradesh’s Dr. BR Ambedkar Konaseema district on Monday, the police mentioned, including that rescue groups might retrieve the our bodies of solely seven of them by Tuesday night.
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Amalapuram deputy superintendent of police TSRK Prasad mentioned a bunch of 11 youngsters, all within the age group of 13-20 years, from Kakinada, Ramachandrapuram and Mandapeta had come to attend a household perform at Sherilanka village in Ok Gangavaram mandal on Monday.
“In the evening, they went to the Godavari river at Kaminilanka to take a bath. As they could not gauge the depth of the river, they drowned,” he mentioned.
Whereas three of them managed to swim again to the riverbank, the remaining eight went lacking. “The boys who swam back to the shore alerted the locals, who immediately informed the police,” the DSP mentioned.
The police and personnel from the Nationwide Catastrophe Response Power carried out the search operation.
The teenagers had been recognized as Sabbati Kranti (19), Sabbati Paul (18), Ellamarti Sai (18), Tathipudi Nitish (18) from Kakinada, Rohith (18) from Mandapeta, amongst others.
By Tuesday night, the rescue groups retrieved the our bodies of seven boys, besides Sabbati Kranti. “We hope to retrieve the eighth body soon,” the police official mentioned, including that the retrieved our bodies had been despatched to Mummudivaram Major Well being Centre for autopsy.
Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu directed Konaseema district collector Mahesh Kumar Ravirala and superintendent of police B Krishna Rao to go to the spot and supervise the rescue efforts.
Naidu additionally issued strict directions to officers to put in warning boards in any respect water our bodies throughout the state, and ordered the identification of hazardous places, reminiscent of ponds and lakes, by means of the village and ward secretariat workers, and the quick set up of cautionary signage.
The CM pressured that district collectors should implement these measures, and warned of harsh steps in opposition to negligence or failure to conform.