Two drown, two missing in separate incidents at RK Beach
The Hindu
One victim was from Bhadrak in Odisha and another one was from Hyderabad, say police
Two persons, including a woman, drowned while another two youth were missing in separate incidents at RK Beach here on Sunday.
According to Inspector of III Town Police Station Korada Rama Rao, a woman named Sumitra Tripathi (21), who came on tour to Visakhapatnam with friends from Bhadrak in Odisha, went for swimming at RK Beach. She was pulled in by the strong current at around 2.15 p.m.. Community Guards, who were on duty, managed to trace her and bring her to the shore. She was shifted to the King George Hospital where she died while undergoing treatment.
In 2021, five women from Mayithara, four of them MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) workers, found a common ground in their desire to create a sustainable livelihood by growing vegetables. Rajamma M., Mary Varkey, Valsala L., Elisho S., and Praseeda Sumesh, aged between 70 and 39, pooled their savings, rented a piece of land and began their collective vegetable farming journey under the Deepam Krishi group.