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Five drown in district

Staff Reporter

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Five persons, including three Plus Two students and a Class IX student, drowned in three separate incidents in the capital and Attingal on Saturday.

Kerala Fire and Rescue Services control said the three Plus Two students of Abraham Memorial School, Thirumala, drowned at Kalappan kadavu in Karamana River at 5.30 p.m.

The police identified the dead as Selvaraj, son of Rajan and Retnamma residing at Narayeeni Mandiram, Thaliyal, Karamana; Syam, son of Narayan and Jaysree of SreeVihar, Military Nagar, Valiyavila; and Abilash of Karamana.

Sources said one of the students slipped from a rock and fell into the river during a picnic. Efforts to rescue him led to the drowning of two others. Locals who rushed to the spot on hearing their cries for help managed to rescue the fourth person.

The Fire and Rescue Services personnel retrieved the bodies from near the rock by 7 p.m. The Poojappura police have registered a case.

In another incident, Rohan, a Class IX student of Sree Chitra Thirunal Residential School, Chirayinkil, was found dead in a pond near his residence at Veralom, Attingal, at 8 p.m. The Fire and Rescue Service personnel rushed him to the Medical College Hospital in the capital at 8.50 p.m. Rohan was declared dead on arrival at the casualty wing. The accident occurred when he went for tuition, hospital sources said.

A 32-year-old man was found dead in a well near his residence at Naruvamoodu at 8 p.m. The deceased had been identified as Ani, a resident of Panayil Veedu, Meelanchal. He is survived by his wife and two children. All the bodies had been shifted to the mortuary of the Medical College Hospital for post-mortem examination.

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