4 of family, including 3 minors, drown in Telangana

Hyderabad: Four members of a family from Andhra Pradesh, two teenage girls and two boys, on Tuesday drowned in a canal in Nalgonda district of Telangana, police said.

The incident occurred at around 9 am when the four had gone to wash clothes in the canal in Nadigudem Mandal, a senior police official said.

One of the girls, aged 19, accidentally fell into the water and in an attempt to rescue her, the other three, aged 10-14 years, entered the water, but all four of them drowned, she added.

"All the four bodies have been retrieved. The deceased are from Andhra Pradesh," the police official said. A case has been registered.