Hyderabad: Two boys and a 28-year-old housewife drowned in a pond in Mahbubnagar district on Saturday. Police said Bhargavi, who was washing clothes on the pond’s bank saw Sampath and Sandeep drowning and got drowned attempting to rescue them.
V. Bhargavi, 28, a resident of Lagacherla village in Bomraspet mandal, had gone to the pond to wash clothes. Her nephew, V. Sampath Kumar, 11, and his friend Sandeep Goud, 11, accompanied her to the pond to play.
While she was busy washing clothes, the two boys entered the pond. Though they did not know swimming they went into the deep waters. When they started drowning they started shouting.
Bhargavi who did not know swimming saw them and in an attempt to rescue them she tied a sari to a tree on the banks and with its help she reached the kids and tried to pull them out. But in the process she lost her grip and the three drowned in the pond.
Another woman washing on the other side of the bank saw the three drowning and informed the villagers who recovered the bodies from the pond. Police registered a suspicious death case.
