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Andhra Pradesh: 1 dead, 8 missing after boat capsizes in Sileru river ANI | Updated: May 25, 2021 09:38 IST
Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) [India], May 25 (ANI): A child drowned and at least eight people went missing after a boat capsized in Sileru River in Vishapatnam s Chitrakonda Police station limits along the Odisha- Andhra Pradesh border in the early hours of Tuesday.
According to BV Krishna Rao, Superintendent of Police (SP), Visakhapatnam, 11 migrant workers from Hyderabad had on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday embarked for Odisha in a boat. Eight migrant workers are missing and one body of a child recovered after a boat capsized. Three people managed to swin to the shore safely. The incident happened in the early morning on Tuesday. The people were headed to their native village in Odisha from Hyderabad after the Telangana government imposed a strict lockdown in the state, said the SP.
May 25, 2021, 10:06 IST
VISAKHAPATNAM: In a tragic incident, a child drowned while seven others are feared missing after two boats they were travelling capsized in Sileru river along Andhra-Odisha border in Vizag Agency area on Monday night.
As per reports, the incident took place near Gunta Vada close to the Sileru dam which is 140 kilometres from Visakhapatnam. There were 11 people aboard the two boats at the time of the accident. All of them were from Konduguda village in Malkangiri district of Odisha. They had migrated to Telangana to work in a brick kiln on the outskirts of Hyderabad. Due to the second COVID pandemic, 35 workers decided to go back to their village. Eleven of them reached the village in the first batch of boats that sailed across the Sileru Reservoir earlier.
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Visakhapatnam, May 25 (IANS) A child has died, and seven persons are reported missing in a mishap that took place on the Sileru river, on Monday night.
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