Tanuku family of four jumps into Godavari from Chinchinada bridge; three bodies recovered, mother survives

A family of four from Tanuku jumped into the Godavari from the Chinchinada bridge in Yelamanchili mandal around 7 am on Saturday, 5 September 2026. Namburi Srinivasa Rao, 45, his wife Padmini, 42, their son Easwar (also referred to as Venkata Eeshwar), 16 and in first-year polytechnic, and their daughter Nitya (also Nithyasri), about 15 and in Class 9, leapt together. Fishermen rescued only Padmini. The bodies of the husband and two children were recovered on Sunday, 6 September.

Motives locked in the public record include mounting debts, a failed milk business halted for about eight months, a house mortgaged for ₹2.5 lakh, and a suicide note. Police and local accounts marked this as the third such case since August at the same or related bridges. Padmini was moved from Razole to Tanuku and then to the Government General Hospital in Eluru; she was described as critical and unconscious in early updates and later as out of danger in some accounts.

Yelamanchili Sub-Inspector M. Raj Kumar handled the case. SDRF and fire teams searched the river. Scooters were found on the bridge. Distress lines belong in this body briefly: callers in crisis can use 104 or Tele-MANAS 14416. Those numbers are not a substitute for local police or hospital care, but they are the locked public helplines for this cutting.

Investigate desks must refuse invented quotes from the note or invented loan ledgers beyond the ₹2.5 lakh mortgage figure. West Godavari’s bridge tragedies since August turn a single family’s leap into a pattern file: the same spans, the same morning hour language, the same recovery choreography. The locked set is the Saturday jump, Sunday recoveries, the four names and ages as locked, the milk-business halt, the third-bridge pattern since August, and Padmini’s hospital path. This cutting does not invent a finished charge sheet against a moneylender, nor does it treat every conflicting class-standard report as settled beyond Class 9 / age 15 for Nitya.

Debt distress at river bridges has become a recurring West Godavari tragedy file. When a family leaves scooters on the span and only one member is pulled alive, the Investigate story is the social map — mortgage, failed livelihood, repeated bridge cases — not a spectacle of the recovery photographs. Readers should hold the helpline numbers and the locked facts, and refuse any invented count of creditors or bank names not present in the tip lock. Place names stay Tanuku, Chinchinada, Yelamanchili mandal and Eluru hospital — not a renamed district.