Woman, two sons drown in sump in Namakkal

NAMAKKAL: A woman and her two sons drowned in a sump at her parents’ home in Namakkal town on Monday.

The deceased have been identified as R Indumathi of Kolathupalayam and her sons Yadvik Arvin, 3, and 11-month-old Nivin Adhik.

Indumathi was married to Ravi Kumar, 34, of Kolathupalayam. She had come to her parents’ home in Pothupatty in Namakkal town to attend a temple festival.

Ravi Kumar, who works as a guest lecturer at a government arts and science college in Rasipuram, left for work on Monday, leaving Indumathi and their two sons at her parents’ home. While Indumathi was feeding the younger child, Yadvik Arvin was playing outside. He fell into a sump on the premises while trying to retrieve a toy that had fallen into it. The sump had remained open since morning, Namakkal town police inspector K Kabilan said.

Indumathi jumped into the sump with the toddler in her arms, attempting to save her elder son.

"There was more than five feet of water in the sump. Indumathi, who was just four feet tall, drowned with her two sons," the inspector said.

The police recovered the bodies and sent them to Namakkal Government Medical College Hospital for postmortem.

A case was registered.