Sringeri: Four members of an extended family, who are residents of Sringeri and Koppa, drowned in the river Tunga in Vidyaranyapura, near Sringeri town on Sunday, March 24 afternoon.
According to the Sringeri police, who are investigating the case, the deceased have been identified as Ramachandra (36), Nagendra (24), Rathnakara (35), and Pradeep (26). Of the four, Pradeep is a resident of Bengaluru.
“On Sunday, at around 12 noon, six persons got into the river Tunga for a swim. At around 1 PM, four of them drowned. The two others, who didn’t go near the deep part of the river, survived. The bodies were retrieved from the river after about an hour-long search. The bodies were handed over to their family after a postmortem, on Sunday evening,” said the police.