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Mystery shrouds death of three youths

By Our Staff Reporter

ONGOLE DEC. 10. Three youths belonging to Mamillapally village under Santamaguluru police station died under suspicious circumstances on agricultural fields on the outskirts of the village last night.

The bodies were identified as those of Alla Srinivas Rao (20), Mutukuri Brahmam (25) and Polavarapu Brahmaiah (22). According to police, the youths, who were in Ayyappa Swami diksha, set out to a village temple to participate in bazana.

Later, the bodies were found on the fields with one 1 litre and two half-litre Novocran (pesticide) tins beside them. With this, it was being suspected that the victims might have committed suicide by consuming poison. However, according to preliminary information reaching here, the youths ended their lives in devotional trance.

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