A woman and her two children, including an infant, were washed away in a stream in the limits of A. Annavaram police station under Chintapalli mandal in Visakhapatnam Agency on Monday. The incident occurred when a parked jeep in which they were sitting rolled down into a flowing stream.
According to Anil Kumar, DSP of Chintapalli, the woman and her two children, natives of Donapalem village, went to A. Annavaram to attend the weekly shandy. After completing shopping they were sitting in the jeep to go back to their village.
“We presume that hand brake of the jeep came off or the gears would have accidentally moved to neutral and the jeep rolled down into the stream,” said Mr. Anil. The bodies of the mother, Kothuru Peddhammi (29), and the six-month-old infant were traced. The body of six-year-old Kothuru Gurunath was yet to be traded, said the DSP.