TIRUPUR: Fire and
rescue
services personnel on Friday continued searches for an unidentified man who fell into a river near
Tirupur
in
Tamil Nadu on Thursday evening while trying to escape with a brass lamp (kuthuvilakku) which he stole from a house.
As part of the Karthigai Deepam festival, K Sivakumar of Guruvayurappan Nagar near Boyampalayam and his family members drew a kolam in front of their home and placed a kuthuvilakku there.
An unidentified man stole the lamp and ran away. Some
residents
noticed it and chased him. He slipped into the into the Nallaru river, a tributary of the
Noyyal
river. There is a checkdam across the river in the place where he fell, and water level is 20 feet.
On being alerted, fire and rescue services personnel reached the spot and began efforts to rescue the man. They stopped the operation at night and resumed it on Friday morning.
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