Three persons were feared drowned when a boat in which they were travelling capsized in Sileru river under Chitrakonda tehsil in Malkangiri district on Monday night. According to Chitrakonda Tehsildar Falguni Majhi, some villagers of Kondaguda under Kurmanur panchayat of Kudulmulgumma block were returning to their home by a boat after collecting their PDS rice from Alurpeta in Andhra Pradesh when the boatman lost control.
While some of them managed to swim ashore, three others went missing. The identities of the missing persons were yet to be ascertained. Meanwhile, police and a fire brigade teams rushed to the spot on Wednesday morning and began search and rescue operations. Rescue teams had to be summoned over the incident.