In Karur on Tuesday, three people, including brothers who had gone to immerse their mother’s ashes in the Cauvery River, drowned and died.
Arunan (62) was from Narasimmapuram in Karur. He was a retired postal station officer. His brother was Suresh (61). He was unmarried. He lived with his mother and went to whatever work he could find. Their mother died last Saturday due to old age. Following this, Arunan came to Karur from Chennai with his family to attend his mother’s funeral rites.
In this situation, on Tuesday morning, he took his mother’s body with relatives and cremated it at the crematorium in Palammalpuram, Karur. Later, to immerse his mother’s ashes, he went with his relative, retired private bank manager Srinivasan (64), who lives near his house, and other relatives to the Cauvery River at Nerur near Karur.
There, after immersing the ashes, when Arunan entered the river to bathe, he went into a deep area and drowned. Immediately, his brother Suresh went to rescue him, but he too drowned. Seeing this, Srinivasan tried to save both of them, but he too drowned. Relatives who saw all three drowning shouted for help.
Immediately, people from the neighborhood came and rescued all three and sent them by 108 ambulance to a private hospital in Karur. The doctors who examined them there said that all three had already died.
Upon receiving the information, Karur Vangal police arrived, recovered the bodies of the three, and sent them to the Karur Government Medical College Hospital for postmortem examination. They have also registered a case and are investigating the matter.
