Four girls drown in water tank

HYDERABAD: Four girls drowned in a water tank when they went for a swim on Tuesday. The incident took place in Srinivasapur village of Wanaparthy mandal in Mahaboobnagar district. According to Wanaparthy rural police, the four girls are G Manisha (8), H Sirisha (8) and M Sasikala (8) and S Shivamma (7).Shivamma was a class III student of a local government school while the three others were class IV students of the same school.“While the school remained closed on account of Sakalajanula Samme, the girls stayed back at home and, in the afternoon, went to a nearby water tank in the village to swim,” police said.The four, who do not know swimming, drowned accidentally in the tank, police said. Locals, who were working in the fields, heard their cries, rushed and brought them out. By then, three girls except Sasikala were dead.Sasikala died while being shifted to a hospital.