Sullia, May 09, 2023: Two sisters met a watery grave in the Kumaradhara river at Pelathagundi at Kenya near Balpa of Subrahmanya police station limits on May 8, Monday evening.
The deceased are Hamsitha (15) and Avanthika (11), daughters of Satish Ammannaya, an engineer in Bengaluru. The family hailed from Kankal in Balpa. The bodies of the sisters were retrieved late night.
The girls along with their mother had come to their native place at Kankal in Balpa. On Monday evening, the girls along with family members had been to the banks of the river Kumaradhara near their house.
The two girls who had stepped into the water had gone missing and immediately a search was launched. It is suspected that the girls might have slipped not aware of the depth of the water.