Date:04/10/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/10/04/stories/2007100460281000.htm
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Andhra Pradesh

Three girls drowned

Staff Reporter

KADAPA: Three SSC girl students of Chukkayapalle, a village surrounded by Somasila backwaters, in Nandalur mandal in Andhra Pradesh, were drowned when the country boat which was ferrying them to school at Pothapi capsized on Wednesday morning.

A dozen girls had set off to the school in the boat. A man rescued eight girls with the help of a lorry tube, but three students were drowned.

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