A picnic turned tragic for a man and a woman as they drowned in a tank near a Dargah at Kawkur of Jawaharnagar while another man was saved from the jaws of death on Saturday.
Dharmaraj of Begum Bazar along with his friend Fauzia, 19 of Moghalpura and her sister went to the Dargah in the afternoon. “There, the trio met another couple - Jaffar and Neha,” Jawaharnagar Inspector T.S. Umamaheshwara Rao said. Dharmaraj agreed to Jaffar’s suggestion to spend some time at a nearby tank. Jaffar, Dharmaraj and Fauzia went there on the former’s two-wheeler. Later, the other two women were also taken there. None of them knew swimming. While Jaffar, Dharmaraj and Fauzia entered the water, the other two women watched from the bank. “After a few minutes splashing in the water, Fauzia slipped into deep waters. Trying to rescue her, Dharmaraj too drowned,” the Inspector said. Jaffar tried to pull them out, but he too drowned in the water. As Neha screamed for help, a passer-by jumped into the water and brought Jaffar out. By then, Dharmaraj and Fauzia had died.
Girl kidnapped
An unidentified woman abducted a six-year-old girl Akshaya at Dasaaram in B.K. Guda of S.R. Nagar on Saturday. Akshaya and another girl of the same age, Srilata, were playing outside their huts around 4 p.m. when a woman lured them to the next lane offering chocolates, S.R. Nagar Inspector Mohammed Waheeduddin said.
“After walking with the woman for about 200 yards, Srilata returned home rejecting the chocolates but the woman took away the second girl,” the Inspector said.
