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Two persons were washed distant successful abstracted incidents successful a flash flood successful Palar stream adjacent Vaniyambadi and Arakkonam towns successful Tirupattur and Ranipet districts respectively connected Sunday.
Police said the deceased were identified arsenic S. Nirmala (40), a wage idiosyncratic adjacent Vaniyambadi town, and S. Ramesh (40), who works arsenic laboratory technician astatine Government Stanley Hospital successful Chennai.
Initial enquiry revealed that successful the archetypal incident, Ramesh and his household including 2 children and woman came to his autochthonal Palayakara Kandigai colony adjacent Arakkonam municipality successful Ranipet territory for the weekend. Along with his family, constabulary said that Ramesh went to Kallaur, a tributary of Palar river, to thatch swimming for his son.
Police said Ramesh, who knows swimming, tied a tiny enactment connected the waist of his lad and allowed to spell to a deeper information of the river. As h2o travel successful the stream was high, the lad was washed distant successful the river.
Immediately, Ramesh jumped into the stream to prevention his son. As the household cried for help, a fewer fishermen, who were sportfishing successful the river, saved the lad but were incapable to hint Ramesh successful the river.
Based connected orders of Collector J. U. Chandrakala, a NDRF squad successful Arakkonam were roped successful to rescue the laboratory technician. Arakkonam Taluk constabulary and firefighters were besides searching for Ramesh successful the river.
In different incident, Nirmala, a workplace idiosyncratic adjacent Vaniyambadi town, tried to transverse the Palar stream to instrumentality to her location erstwhile she was washed distant successful the river. A fewer people, who noticed it, alerted Vaniyambadi constabulary and firefighters, who were searching for her successful the river. A lawsuit was registered. A probe is underway.
