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Newspaper vendor electrocuted

Staff Reporter

Victim stepped on a live power cable



Muruganandam

CHENNAI: A newspaper hawker was electrocuted on Tuesday morning when he came into contact with a live cable that from an overhead line at Tirumangalam.

Muruganandam (26) was delivering newspapers when he stepped on the cable lying in front of a subscriber's house on 16th Main Road opposite Sri Devi Hospital.

The incident took place around 6.15 a.m.

The deceased , a hawker for The Hindu for the past nine years, died on the spot.

It was barely six months since he got married, his friends said.

The body was released to his relatives after post mortem at the Kilpauk Medical College. The cremation was held at his native place in Katpadi.

A case has been registered by Tirumangalam police.

Student commits suicide

An engineering college student was found dead in her house at Arumbakkam on Monday night. Sivaranjini (21), third year student of MGR Engineering College, had hung herself from the ceiling fan in her room. Around 9 p.m., her father Vedamurthy and others rushed her to a private hospital after they broke open the door.

She was declared dead around 11.30 p.m. by the hospital authorities, Koyambedu police said.

Boy drowned

A boy drowned in an overflowing canal near his house where he had gone fishing on Tuesday afternoon. The victim was seven-year-old Karan, a class II student of Jai Gopal Garodia School. Chitlapakkam police said Karan's body was noticed by locals around 4.30 p.m.

The canal, on Veerammamunivar Street at Ramakrishnapuram near Chitlapakkam, was nearly four feet deep.

He was declared dead at the Chromepet General Hospital.

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