Man, his son drowned in irrigation tank

PNS|Tirupati

A man and his son were drowned in an irrigation tank at Graddagunta village in Ogili mandal on Tuesday.

Police said that Chengagaiah was a farmer. He entered the tank along with his buffalos. He slipped into a deep pit and drowned. The Chengaiah’s son Nagarjuna entered the tank to trace his father’s body this morning and he too drowned in the tank.

The bodies of the father and son were retrieved from the tank. A pall of gloom descended on the village with the death of the father and son duo without hours.