The villagers who blocked the Chegunta-Medak road protesting lack of drinking water supply, had said that officials and elected representatives were not responding to their pleas.
Interestingly, even while admitting that there were power supply disruptions in the village, the official said Gollakunta Thanda had about 40 households that were directly tapping electricity from electrical lines passing over.
All the victims were Class 9 students who were sleeping in one room. Following the children alerting their parents, relatives and parents rushed to the school on Thursday morning and staged a protest.
Mokiri Mallaiah and Jella Mallaiah attacked each other over the dispute at their agriculture field, with Jella Mallaiah sustaining serious injuries in the attack.
In a tragic incident, two persons died in a road accident when a speeding lorry hit an oncoming two-wheeler on Ramanthapur Thanda-Vadiyaram road near Chegunta on Tuesday morning.
Since Medak and Sangareddy districts witnessed moderate rain in June this year, these two districts did not witness any major increase in below-groundwater levels (BGL) during the month.
The death of a six-year-old boy in an attack by a pack of street dogs at Isnapur on Friday has exposed how serious the issue was, even as five stray dog attacks were reported under Patancheru mandal on Friday alone.