A woman, identified as Rupeni Sabar, of Bagada village under Gajapati district’s Rayagada block drowned in river Mahendratanaya on Tuesday.
Rupeni and her husband Tinkada were returning home with their BPl rice quota from the Gangabada gram panchayat office. A heavy current washed away them when they were crossing the river.
While Tinkada could save himself, Rupeni got drowned. Rupeni’s body was recovered from a half-km distance in the river. Police registered an unnatural death case and handed over the body to the family members after postmortem.