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Two brothers were killed aft the extortion of a dilapidated location collapsed connected them astatine Elangadu colony adjacent Vandavasi municipality successful Tiruvannamalai territory connected Friday (February 13, 2026) morning.
The deceased, M. Abinesh (17) and his member M. Mukesh (15), were residents of Vallur colony and studying successful Classes 11 and 9 respectively astatine the Government Boys Higher Secondary School successful Vandavasi.
According to the police, the brothers had been staying astatine their grandma K. Ponnammal’s (65) location successful Elangadu village, arsenic it was person to their school.
The constabulary said Ponnammal had planned to reconstruct different location she owned successful the village. On Friday, astir 8 a.m., the 2 brothers, on with their uncle M. Seetharaman (38) and his lad S. Sriram (8), went to the dilapidated operation to demolish it.
While Seetharaman was attempting to region portions of the roof, it abruptly gave mode and collapsed connected the boys who were wrong the location astatine the time. Abinesh and Mukesh died connected the spot, portion Sriram sustained insignificant injuries.
Residents successful the country rushed to the spot and pulled the victims retired of the debris. On receiving information, the Ponnur constabulary and firefighters from Vandavasi arrived astatine the country and shifted the bodies to the Government Taluk Hospital successful Vandavasi for postmortem.
A lawsuit has been registered and further probe is nether way.
