Five persons, including a 10-year-old child, belonging to two families from Bengaluru drowned in the Visvesvaraya canal at Doddakottagere village near Basaralu in Mandya taluk on Tuesday (April 25).
The tragedy struck when the five members, who had come to their relative’s place for a holiday at Hellegere from Neelasandra in Bengaluru, went to the canal for a swim.
Reports reaching here said Tasmiya, 22, Afika, 22, Ashraf, 28, Anisha Begum, 34, and Mehtaab, 10, went to the canal located close to their village.
