Visakhapatnam: Disaster struck the company systems when eight persons, consisting of children and ladies, all guest workers from Odisha, drowned after 2 country boats capsized in Sileru Tank along the Andhra-Odisha Border (AOB) on Monday night.The occurrence took place when 35 members of migrant families were trying to sneak into the Odisha border in the evening, fearing lockdown clampdown.
Ten individuals handled to swim ashore, while 8 others drowned in the river.
The cops said that the 35 members of guest employees from Guntawada and Konduguda villages under Malkangiri district in Odisha reached Sileru from Hyderabad as they lost their incomes due to the Covid-19 curfew.
After crossing the Sileru check post in a car, they reached Jonnalamamidi village on foot and chose to take a boat ride to reach their home towns as they feared they may be stopped at the border by Odisha officials.In the first journey, 17 people set off in two nation boats and crossed over to Odisha.
In the second trip, 18 individuals set sail in the same country boats.
When the very first country boat capsized allegedly due to the overload or the boat striking a pole below the water, the panic-stricken occupants delved into the other boat to conserve their lives.
However it too gave up and sank in the river.
Chintapalle ASP Vidya Sagar Naidu said that a team of Odisha Catastrophe Rapid Action Force with the assistance of AP cops and other departments released a search and rescue operation to trace the missing 8 individuals.
They recovered six bodies so far from the river and the search is on to trace the remaining 2 bodies.The cops stated that 7 among the 8 victims were kids and women.
The bodies were moved to a regional medical facility in Odisha for post mortem.
A 13-month-old child likewise died in the incident.Meanwhile, AP minister for health Alla Kali Krishna Srinivas asked the Visakhapatnam district authorities to use up rescue operations.
He likewise asked to guarantee appropriate treatment to individuals who handled to swim ashore.
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