Telangana: Man, daughter washed away as flash floods overflow over bridge

The father and daughter duo had set out in their car to RGIA, however the car was swept away by the overflowing Akeruvagu on a bridge across at Purushothamaiahgudem in Maripeda mandal in Mahabubabad district.

Mahabubabad: The promising career of a young agricultural scientist, Nunavath Ashwini, 26, of Khammam district, came to a tragic end as she was found dead after being washed away in a car she was travelling along with her father Nunavath Motilal in the district on Sunday. Efforts were still on to trace Motilal when reports last came in.

Ashwini was working at the School of Crop Resistance System Research of Indian Council of Agricultural Research’s (ICAR) National Institute of Biotic Stress Management (NIBSM) at Raipur in Chhattisgarh.

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She had won the Young Scientist Award in a conference held at the NIBSM this April.

Her father Motilal was a farmer and hailed from Gate Karepalli Gangaram thanda of Singareni mandal in Khammam district. Ashwini had recently attended her brother’s marriage engagement ceremony at her native place.

On Sunday, the father and daughter had set out on their car to Hyderabad to reach the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport. However, the car was swept away by the overflowing Akeruvagu on a bridge across at Purushothamaiahgudem in Maripeda mandal in Mahabubabad district.

In their last communication, the duo had called their friends and family members saying that their car had gone into the stream and that the water was up to their necks. Later their phones were switched off. As the duo failed to respond to the calls made by the family members, some of the residents of the village reached the spot and informed the police, who immediately launched search and rescue operations.

After a few hours, Ashwini’s body was found in a palm oil farm near the bridge. Efforts were still on trace the missing Motilal while the ill-fated car was also spotted.
Mahabubabad additional SP Chennaiah, Sirole SI Nagesh and staff took part in the search operations.