Archive · 27 Aug 2026
Software Engineer Drowns While Playing In Telangana's Lower Manair Dam
A 29-year-old software engineer named Pruthviraj visited Karimnagar with a friend.
They went to the Lower Manair Dam to meet another friend.
The three people played in the water during the afternoon.
Pruthviraj then went missing.
His friends called the police for help.
Police and fire department workers searched for him.
They found him dead in the dam.
His body was sent to a hospital for a postmortem examination.
A 29-year-old software engineer, Pruthviraj, drowned in the Lower Manair Dam in Karimnagar on Wednesday.
Pruthviraj was a native of Machilipatnam in Andhra Pradesh and worked for a private company in Hyderabad.
He and another person visited Karimnagar to meet a friend who teaches at a private engineering college.
The three friends went to the dam in the afternoon and played in the water.
Police and fire personnel recovered Pruthviraj's body and began an investigation.
- Who
- Pruthviraj, a 29-year-old software engineer from Machilipatnam, Andhra Pradesh, drowned.
- What
- He drowned while playing in the water at the Lower Manair Dam.
- When
- Wednesday afternoon.
- Where
- The Lower Manair Dam in Karimnagar, Telangana.
- Why
- He had gone to the dam with two friends after visiting Karimnagar to meet a friend.
- Victim
- Pruthviraj, aged 29
- Occupation
- Software engineer at a private company in Hyderabad
- Native place
- Machilipatnam in Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh
- Incident location
- Lower Manair Dam, Karimnagar
- Incident time
- Wednesday afternoon
- Response
- Police and fire department personnel conducted a search
- Investigation
- Police registered a case and began investigating