Mysuru / Mandya, April 30 -- Family blames CNNL officials who refused to reduce VC Canal water flow despite appeals

More details are emerging in the tragic case where three members of a family were found dead inside a car submerged in the Visvesvaraya Canal (VC Canal), within the Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) Police Station limits of Mandya district.

The bodies were recovered from the KRS North Bank Canal (VC Canal) and identified as Kumaraswamy (38), his eight-year-old son Adhwaith, and his three-year-old daughter Akshara.

The family, originally from K.R. Nagar taluk, was residing in Bengaluru and had gone missing on April 17 while travelling from Bengaluru to K.R. Nagar.

The vehicle reportedly surfaced after the water level in the canal ...