Udupi: 18-year-old girl jumps into river from bridge, search on

Bellevision Media Network

Udupi, 28 Sep 2016: A young girl jumped into river from the bridge on the evening of Wednesday, September 28 at Kallianpur near here. Police and fire brigade personnel have launched the search operation.

 

Chaithra (18) daughter of Chandrashekar and Jyothi from Puttur in Ambagilu is the deceased girl.

 

The incident took place at Kallianpur Bridge. Chaithra was working for Net G, a mobile shop at Ambalpady for the past 4 months after her PUC. Today evening, soon after her work was over, she took a bus to come to Santhekatte and later started walking towards her house. She was seen talking over the phone and crying by some people. Then suddenly she left her bag and sandals over the bridge and jumped into Swarma river with her mobile phone in hand.

 

Her identity was established with the help of her bag and documents in it.

 

DySP Kumaraswamy, inspector Srikanth Naik and sub-inspector Madhu with the help of other personnel have arrived at the spot. The search operation is on.