Four youths drowned in Kotipalli irrigation project in Vikarabad district of Telangana on Monday, officials said. The incident occurred in Manneguda village of Pudur mandal.
The youths, all belonging to one family, had gone for swimming in the project while celebrating Sankranti.
The deceased were identified as Jagdish, Rakesh, Rajesh and Venkatesh. Police, with the help of swimmers, pulled out the bodies and shifted them for autopsy.
Two of the four men had entered water and when they were drowning, the other two on the banks rushed to their rescue but they too drowned.
MLA M. Anand visited the district hospital and consoled the family of the deceased.
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In another case, four members of a family were found dead under suspicious circumstances at their residence in Hyderabad on Monday, police said.
Vivin Pratap, working as design manager with a car company in Chennai, his wife Sindhura, 32, manager of a Bank of Baroda branch in Hyderabad, their six-year daughter Adhya, and his mother Rajati, 65, were found dead in their house in Tarnaka area under Osmania University Police Station limits.
Relatives of Sindhura alerted the police after she and other family members did not respond to the phone calls. They said she was depressed for the last few days. Police rushed to the house and broke open the door.
While Pratap was found hanging in one room, the other three were lying dead in other rooms. The bodies were shifted to Gandhi Hospital for autopsy.
Police suspect Pratap killed his mother, wife and daughter before taking the extreme step.
The couple hailing from Chennai were reportedly having differences over the shifting to Chennai.
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