Fifteen-year-old boy was washed away while bathing in the Munneru water stream near the Sri Lakshmi Tirupatamma Ammavari temple at Penuganchiprolu in NTR District, on Monday.
He was identified as Randev, a native of Chandrugonda village in the Bhadradri-Kothagudem district of Telangana and had come to the temple with his family members.
Police, along with the villagers, launched a search for the boy’s body.
In another incident, an auto driver, Hemanth Kumar (22), drowned in the sea while trying to take a selfie on the beach near Machilipatnam.
