Hyderabad: A suspected case of mass suicide by seven people has rocked Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh on Sunday.
The local people spotted the bodies floating in a lake at Ontimitta on Kadapa-Renigunta road this morning and alerted the police.
A large number of local people gathered around the lake as the other bodies were spotted and brought out one by one.
Police officials said that they were looking at the incident from all possible angles and were trying to find out whether it was a case of suicide or somebody had murdered them and dumped the bodies in the lake.
As they did not belong to the area, the local people were unable to identify any one of them. There is speculation that they could be outside labourers hired by the Red Sanders smugglers.
Kadapa district superintendent of police Nagi Reddy said, “The bodies don’t have any external injuries. The cause of their deaths could be ascertained only after the post-mortem examination.”
He said as the bodies were bloated, it looks like the persons died more than 48 hours before.
