Six, including two students, drown in Tiruppur

Six people, including two school students, drowned in Amaravathi River at Dharapuram in Tiruppur district on Monday evening.
For representational purposes
For representational purposes

TIRUPPUR: Six people, including two school students, drowned in Amaravathi River at Dharapuram in Tiruppur district on Monday evening. According to police sources, a group of 30 friends and relatives of Annamalai Garden at Iduvai in Tiruppur city, left for Dindigul district on Monday morning for taking part in a festival at Muniyappa Temple at Ottanchattram town.

After the festival, eight people returned to Tiruppur in a van. When they reached Dharapuram-Karur Road, near Amaravathi New Bridge, they parked the van along the road and decided to take a dip in the river.
As soon as they entered the water, all the eight got sucked in by the river’s strong water currents, and they started shouting for help.

A group of villagers, who tried in vain to rescue them, informed Dharapuram fire services personnel. A team of firemen managed to rescue Saran (16) and Jeeva (17) an admitted them to Dharapuram Government Hospital. Police identified the victims as M Amirtha Krishnan (18), R Sridhar (17), T Yuvan (19), T Mohan (17), M Sakkaravarman(18), and R Ranjith (20), a college student. Mohan and Sridhar are school students.

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