May 25, 2021, 10:06 IST
VISAKHAPATNAM: In a tragic incident, a child drowned while seven others are feared missing after two boats they were travelling capsized in Sileru river along Andhra-Odisha border in Vizag Agency area on Monday night.
As per reports, the incident took place near Gunta Vada close to the Sileru dam which is 140 kilometres from Visakhapatnam. There were 11 people aboard the two boats at the time of the accident. All of them were from Konduguda village in Malkangiri district of Odisha. They had migrated to Telangana to work in a brick kiln on the outskirts of Hyderabad. Due to the second COVID pandemic, 35 workers decided to go back to their village. Eleven of them reached the village in the first batch of boats that sailed across the Sileru Reservoir earlier.