Five members of a family had a miraculous escape at R. Kottala village near Donekal in Vidapanakal mandal of Anantapur district on Sunday morning when they tried to cross an overflowing stream on NH 67.
The car entered the water and suddenly the driver realised that the flow was too strong to cross, so stopped the car and cried out for help. Villagers immediately came to their rescue and with the help of a rope brought all of them out of the car and pulled it out of the stream with the help of a tractor. The family was returning to Ballari after visiting the Anjaneyaswamy temple at Kasapuram in Guntakal mandal.
Heavy vehicular traffic got affected for some time and others took a circuitous diverted route to reach Ballari.
