
Four more bodies recovered from Manair
The Hindu
Death toll in drowning incident rises to five; sixth boy still missing
The death toll in Monday’s drowning incident in Manair river in Sircilla town rose to five with the recovery of four more bodies on Tuesday.
A jolly trip to Manair river turned tragic for five boys of Rajiv Nagar in the textile town after they drowned soon after venturing into the water for swimming late on Monday afternoon.
In all, six boys, five of them students of a local school, hailing from the power loom workers’ families were washed away in the river. The body of Ganesh, 13, was fished out from the check dam site in the river later in the evening the same day.

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