THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A 36-year-old man died by drowning and a 19-year-old youth went missing while swimming in Karamana river at Kulakkode near Vellanad under Aryanad police station limits on Saturday.
Kulakkode resident Arun
, who was working as a lab technician at
Regional Cancer Centre
in the city, is the deceased.
Sajith, hailing from
Peringamala
near
Palode
and currently living in a rented house at
Karakulam
, is the one who went missing in the river. He was working as an attender at a private hospital in the city.
Police said Sajith and Arun’s mother were colleagues at a private hospital. Sajith went to Kulakkode to pick up Arun’s mother to go for duty. Sajith reached Arun’s residence in the afternoon. Since their shift would only begin at 5 pm, the two men decided to go for a swim.
“The two men were swimming from one bank to the other and then back. While swimming back from the other bank, Sajith drowned, apparently owing to exhaustion,’’ said a police officer of Aryanad station based on eyewitness accounts. Arun, after reaching back at the starting point, dived into the river again, seeing Sajith drowning. But, both of them soon disappeared under the water, police said.
Search operations were soon launched and rescue workers managed to retrieve the body of Arun. Search for Sajith was continuing at the time of going to press.
Besides parents, Arun leaves behind wife Aswathy and two children.
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