Five drown in temple tank near Gummidipoondi
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Five individuals, together with three youngsters, drowned in a temple tank at Gummidipoondi on Wednesday morning.
The three youngsters drowned whereas enjoying in water and two girls misplaced their lives whereas attempting to rescue them.
On Wednesday morning, a number of girls from Karumbukuppam in Pudhu Gummidipoondi, together with three youngsters, went to the Angalamman temple tank in the locality to scrub garments and have a shower.
When the kids — Narmadha, 12, finding out in Class 8, Ashmitha, 14, and Jeevitha, 14, each college students of Class 9 — had been enjoying in the water, they had been caught in the sludge and cried for assist.
Ashmitha’s mom Sumathi, 38, and one other girl Jyothi Lakshmi waded into the water to avoid wasting them. But all of them drowned.
A number of villagers noticed the our bodies floating in the pond and alerted the Tamil Nadu Fire and Rescue Services and the police. The our bodies had been despatched to the Ponneri Government Hospital for autopsy.
A case has been registered in SIPCOT Police Station and additional investigations are on.
CM proclaims solatium
Chief Minister M.K. Stalin introduced a solatium of ₹5 lakh from the Chief Minister’s Public Relief Fund to the households of every of the deceased.
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