Woman dies hours after son’s death

Madurai: M Rajapandi, a 30-year-old policeman, was killed in a road accident near Checkanurani in Madurai district on Sunday. Hearing the news of his death, Rajapandi’s mother too died of shock on the same day. Rajapandi was attached to battalion police in Chennai.

Along with Rajapandi, another policeman attached to battalion police, B Dinesh, who was also travelling with him, died in the accident.

M Angammal, 63, Rajapandi’s mother, was found inconsolable ever since she heard about her son’s death and died in grief in the intervening night of Sunday and Monday.

Rajapandi and B Dinesh had come to their hometown to take part in their common friend’s marriage function. On Sunday, they were travelling on a two-wheeler, which skidded and they fell. A car ran over them killing Rajapandi on the spot. Dinesh later succumbed to injuries in a GH.