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Fatal swim

Staff Reporter

TAMBARAM: A 50-year-old man died when he went for a swim in the Bay of Bengal near Neelankarai on Friday. Bhaskar Bhattacharya, a former journalist with a leading business magazine and now a British citizen, could not tackle the strong currents. He was pulled out of the water and rushed to a hospital where he died.

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