Vijayawada, Oct 14 (UNI) In a tragic incident, four children, including three girls, all below 11 years of age, drowned in an irrigation canal at Varahapatnam village in Kaikaluru mandal on Thursday.
Police said that the deceased Kavyasri (10), Nikhita (10), Navyasri (11) and Veeranjaneyulu (6) ventured into the canal to take bath and drowned.
The bodies of Kavyasri, Nikhita, Navyasri were fished out and search is on to retrieve the body of Veeranjaneyulu. A pall of gloom descended with the death of four children of the village a day before the Dussehra festival.