Shimla: Rescue workers on Monday morning recovered two bodies from Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi district while the fate of 22 others washed away in the flooded Beas river is still not known, an official said. With this the death toll in Saturday’s accident rose to two, Deputy Additional District Magistrate Pankaj Rai told IANS over the phone. Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh has ordered a probe and ordered the suspension of erring resident engineer of the 126 MW Larji hydropower project being run by the state electricity board. A case of negligence has been registered. Telangana Home Minister Naini Narsimha Reddy and a police team have left for Himachal Pradesh after the reports of tragedy spread. Reddy has left for HP upon instructions from Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao. “Telangana DGP Anurag Sharma and Cyberabad Police Commissioner CV Anand are in touch with top police officials of Himachal Pradesh,” Assistant Commissioner of Police (Petbasheerabad Division) M Srinivasa Rao told PTI on Sunday night. He said that the police team will leave for Kullu in the early hours on Monday. “A group of 48 students studying II-nd year Electronics and Instrumentation at a city-based private engineering college were on a study tour of HP when the tragedy struck them this evening,” Srinivasa Rao said. The study tour had started from June 3, he added. Srinivasa Rao spoke to one of the students of the group and quoted him as saying that “the incident occurred as a group of around 25 students, including seven girls, were taking photographs near the river bank when there was a sudden gush of water in which they were feared to have been washed away”. “We are in constant touch with some other students who had gone on the trip. I have been informed that it was a 10- day tour,” the ACP said. Cyberabad Police Commissioner CV Anand said he had spoken to the Kullu Superintendent of Police on the relief and rescue operations. The students belonged to V.N.R. Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology in Hyderabad and the chances of survival of the rest of them were bleak, officials said. Rai said one of the bodies was recovered from Pandoh dam, some 20 km downstream, whose floodgates were closed after the accident. With inputs from PTI and IANS