A woman and her two children were washed away in the Bheema at Khedgi village near Indi in Vijayapura district on Friday.
Geeta Honnur, 38, and her children Shobhita, 12, and Vasudev, 10, drowned in the river when Geeta went to wash clothes.
Vasudev slipped into the river when he went to drink water. Seeing this, Shobhita jumped in to save him. But both of them began to drown. Their mother, who jumped into the river, drowned too, the police said.
