The dead are identified as Sunita Rathod, Seetabai Rathod and Shamabai Gadivaddar. All the three worked at a stone quarry near Shahabad.
According to police, they had been to the pond to wash clothes when Sunita accidently fell into the pond. In a bid to save her, the other two girls also jumped.
However, all the three drowned.
Sunita and Seetabai were from Revuru tanda while Shamabai was from Navaluru in Maharashtra.
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