A woman and her twin daughters were feared drowned in the Manjeera river near Chinna Ghanpur in Medak district on Tuesday, and officials were still searching for all three late into the evening.

Locals saw the woman jump into the water and alerted the Kulcharam police. Officers reached the spot under Kulcharam police station limits and recovered belongings and a mobile phone. Those items gave them the names of the three people believed to be in the river.

Who the family is

Police identified the woman as Saritha, 27, and her daughters as Vaishnavi and Sravani, the twins. The three were residents of Malkapur in Kamareddy district. The girls were studying in fourth class.

Saritha had lost her husband at a very young age. Since then, she had been struggling to look after her two daughters on her own. Relatives and neighbours had been left to piece together a picture of a household under heavy pressure, and the details are still emerging.

A final call to her father

Before she entered the river, Saritha reportedly told her father, Balakrishna, about her decision. The call came only minutes before she jumped in. Investigators have not yet said what specific family issues drove her to that point, but the family dispute angle has been reported from the outset.

Saritha also informed her decision to end life to her father Balakrishna minutes before jumping into the river.

That detail changes the shape of this case. It means the family had a few minutes of warning, and that a father heard the decision before anyone on the riverbank did. It also means the tragedy was not a sudden accident but a choice that was announced to a family member first.

The search on the riverbank

Once the police recovered the belongings, the search moved to the district administration. Officials from Medak district took over the effort to find the three and kept at it until late on Tuesday evening. The river had not yet yielded the bodies or the survivors by the time the search went into the night.

Searches in flowing water are slow and difficult. Teams work against the current, and every hour without a result narrows the window in which any hope remains. For the family waiting on the bank, each hour brings the same unbearable question.

The Hyderabad link

The story also reaches into Hyderabad. Saritha was working as a security guard in the city to earn a livelihood for herself and her daughters. That job, the only source of income she had, was the thread that held her small family together while she raised two children without a husband.

The case lays bare how thin that safety net can be for single mothers working low-paid jobs far from their home district. Kamareddy and Medak are both in Telangana, and the family’s movement between the city and the district shows how closely the state’s workers and their households are tied to its towns and villages.

What happens next

Police in Kulcharam will carry the investigation forward, and the search operation remains the immediate priority. Officials have not confirmed whether the bodies have been found, and the reports available so far do not say. Anyone following this story should look for official updates from the district police and the Medak administration rather than relying on speculation.

The Manjeera has taken lives before, and the stretch near Chinna Ghanpur is now a place where a family’s story has ended in the most painful way. The loss of two young girls, aged about nine years old in the fourth class, is the detail that will stay with the community longest. Their mother was the one person who could have protected them, and she is the one who drew them into the water.

The priority now is simple. Find the three, confirm what happened, and make sure that a single mother struggling alone with two children does not go unseen again.