Six students drown during Ganesh immersion in Telangana’s Sangareddy

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Gudem Mahipal Reddy, Patancheru MLA, with Serilingampally zone police officials at a hospital in Sangareddy on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: Mohd Arif

Six students of Sirisha Memorial Charitable Trust died when they accidentally fell into a pond while immersing a Ganesh idol near Peddakanjarla village in Sangareddy district on Wednesday evening.

The incident occurred around 7 p.m. when a group of eight people had gone to the pond, located three kilometres away from their orphanage, on the outskirts of the village for the Ganesh immersion.

The six deceased were identified as Siddharth, a Class X student, Narasimha Raju, a B. Tech second-year student, Sumanth Reddy and Ganesh, both second-year polytechnic students, Uday Kiran, a third-year polytechnic student, and Shyam Kumar alias Shyam, a first-year polytechnic student.

The six were taken to Prachin Global Hospital in Patancheru, where doctors declared them dead.

The students were residents of the Sirisha Memorial Charitable Trust, a care home for homeless and orphaned children, at Shivanagar Crossroads, Peddakanjarla. According to sources, the trust accommodates around 70 students from Class I to Polytechnic and B.Tech, with admission restricted to orphans.

Patancheru MLA Gudem Mahipal Reddy visited the hospital, and directed officials to complete the post-mortem by 10 a.m. on Thursday and make arrangements to transport the bodies to their respective hometowns by ambulance. He said that he had arranged the ambulances using his own funds.

According to the MLA, two of the deceased were from Vijayawada, two from Warangal and two from Kukatpally. He said the trust had been conducting Ganesh immersion at the same location for the past 15 years.

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