# Two die, two missing as car plunges into canal in West Godavari 2026-08-16T13:53:49+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet Two youths died and two others remain missing after a car carrying five people plunged into the Narsapuram canal near Itempudi in West Godavari district late Saturday night, police said. The vehicle lost control in heavy rain. One occupant survived by holding on to a tree and being rescued by locals. Firefighters and divers recovered the bodies of Pothula Lakshmi Bhanu (18) and D. Nagi Reddy (18) on Sunday. The missing are Rajaram (17) and Sai Surya (19). The group was returning from a wedding in Peravali village to Mori village in East Godavari. In a separate incident, a youth drowned in the Nagarjuna Sagar backwaters in Nalgonda district of Telangana. Durga Tirumallesh was swept away in the Krishna River while swimming with friends on a pleasure trip. Local authorities recovered his body after a two-hour search. Police investigations into both accidents are ongoing, and searches for the two missing persons in West Godavari continue. ## Coverage - telanganatoday.com This story was synthesised by AI from the source linked above. Tags: Andhra Pradesh, Krishna river, Nagarjuna Sagar, Nalgonda, Telangana, West Godavari Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/two-die-two-missing-as-car-plunges-into-canal-in-west-godavari/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/two-die-two-missing-as-car-plunges-into-canal-in-west-godavari/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes. How this brief was made: an AI model read the report linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/