Hyderabad, July 30 -- A 49 year old man from Ethonda village in Kotagiri mandal of Telangana's Nizamabad district, died of unexpected cardiac arrest when he was on a boat trip in the US state of Virginia.

According to a DC report, Vadlamudi Harikrishna, a software professional had been residing in the US since 2000, where he established a lucrative career in the IT industry. On the day of the accident, he was on an amusement boat outing with friends and relatives when he had a heart attack and fell into the water.

A friend's daughter, who was on the boat, moved quickly and pulled him from the river. She performed CPR at the spot until ambulance personnel arrived. Though there was a struggle to get him to hospital, he was pronounced dead...