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An aged antheral was killed aft being deed by a lorry adjacent Karaikudi present connected Wednesday, starring to a roadworthy blockade by his relatives who suspected foul play successful the incident.
Police said, the deceased has been identified arsenic Pandi, 65, a nonmigratory of Amaravathi Pudur adjacent Karaikudi. He served arsenic the clergyman astatine a section temple. On Wednesday morning, portion Pandi was walking to the temple, a tipper lorry rammed into him from behind.
As helium succumbed to injuries connected the spot, the lorry operator fled the scene. Claiming suspicion implicit the accident, Pandi’s relatives staged a sit-in protestation connected the Trichy–Rameswaram National Highway. They demanded the contiguous apprehension of the operator and a thorough probe into the circumstances of his death.
As the protestation caused a postulation snarl connected the NH for implicit fractional an hour, Karaikudi Tehsildar Raja and the Somanathapuram Police arrived astatine the spot and engaged successful talks with the protesters.
The relatives withdrew their protestation and dispersed aft officials assured them that due ineligible enactment would beryllium taken.
The Somanathapuram Police recovered the assemblage and sent it to the Karaikudi Government Hospital for a post-mortem examination. A lawsuit has been registered, and a manhunt is underway to apprehend the absconding lorry driver.
