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Three people, including a Fire and Rescue Services officer, were killed during a rescue cognition that went awry astatine Neduvathoor successful Kollam, Kerala, aboriginal Monday (October 13, 2025).
The Kollam constabulary identified the deceased arsenic Sonu S. Kumar, 36, a autochthonal of Attingal and an exigency responder attached to the Fire and Rescue Services portion successful Kottarakkara; Archana, 33, a autochthonal of Neduvathoor; and Sivakrishnan, 22, Archana’s spouse and a nonmigratory of Kodungalloor successful Thrissur.
According to the police, the Fire and Rescue Services section received a distress telephone successful the aboriginal hours, intimating that Archana had jumped into a municipal good adjacent to her house.
Mr. Kumar was portion of the exigency rescue squad which rushed to the scene. Mr. Kumar abseiled down the heavy good to propulsion Archana retired of the waters erstwhile the factual barricade astir the reservoir collapsed.
The constabulary said Sivakrishnan, who was leaning into the well, fell into the depths. The falling debris fatally trapped the 3 astatine the bottom.
The remaining members of the portion and section radical extricated the 3 from the well. However, they exhibited scarce signs of beingness erstwhile brought to the surface. They were rushed to a section hospital, wherever doctors pronounced the 3 dead.
The constabulary said their preliminary inference was that Archana took the utmost measurement pursuing a combat with Sivakrishnan implicit a supposedly missing vessel of alcohol. They said they person retrieved videos Archana posted connected societal media to amusement the injuries she had sustained.
The constabulary person registered a lawsuit of unnatural death.
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