By Online Desk
Four days after Cyclone Michaung battered Chennai, the bodies of two men have been recovered from a 60-foot trench at a construction site in Velachery.
The men are suspected to have fallen into the trench amid heavy rains triggered by the cyclone.
They were identified as S Naresh (20) who worked at a petrol bunk next to the construction site, and R Jayaseelan (32), an assistant engineer with Greentech.
The body of S Naresh was retrieved from a 60-foot trench at a construction site in Velachery in the early hours of December 4, by rescue personnel after about 100 hours since the mishap occurred, while Jayaseelan’s body was retrieved in the afternoon.
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Naresh worked at a petrol bunk next to the construction site on the five-furlong road. Greater Chennai Corporation Commissioner J Radhakrishnan, who visited the accident site, confirmed that one of the retrieved bodies was that of Naresh, a staff of the fuel station adjacent to the under-construction site.
Naresh’s sister, Lavanya, had recalled how carefree a person he had been.
“He had stubbornly refused to go to work all these years. Whenever we’d ask him to work, he would say he would work only for himself. He planned to work here for just a month to save enough to go to Tiruchendur Murugan temple. He told my three-year-old son that he would come to him on Tuesday so he could put the ‘mala’ on him,” she said.
Family members of Jayaseelan including his pregnant wife had been waiting in hope opposite the construction site since Monday.
Jayaseelan’s wife had told her sister on Thursday, “They keep telling me not to have hope. They don’t know the power of my mind.”
Both bodies have been shifted to Royapettah GH.
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The construction of the building is undertaken by Greentech Structural Construction for Hinduja Leyland. The police are yet to book either of the companies, media reports said. Follow channel on WhatsApp
Four days after Cyclone Michaung battered Chennai, the bodies of two men have been recovered from a 60-foot trench at a construction site in Velachery.
The men are suspected to have fallen into the trench amid heavy rains triggered by the cyclone.
They were identified as S Naresh (20) who worked at a petrol bunk next to the construction site, and R Jayaseelan (32), an assistant engineer with Greentech.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });
The body of S Naresh was retrieved from a 60-foot trench at a construction site in Velachery in the early hours of December 4, by rescue personnel after about 100 hours since the mishap occurred, while Jayaseelan’s body was retrieved in the afternoon.
ALSO READ | 60 hours on, workers remain trapped in trench in Velachery
Naresh worked at a petrol bunk next to the construction site on the five-furlong road. Greater Chennai Corporation Commissioner J Radhakrishnan, who visited the accident site, confirmed that one of the retrieved bodies was that of Naresh, a staff of the fuel station adjacent to the under-construction site.
Naresh’s sister, Lavanya, had recalled how carefree a person he had been.
“He had stubbornly refused to go to work all these years. Whenever we’d ask him to work, he would say he would work only for himself. He planned to work here for just a month to save enough to go to Tiruchendur Murugan temple. He told my three-year-old son that he would come to him on Tuesday so he could put the ‘mala’ on him,” she said.
Family members of Jayaseelan including his pregnant wife had been waiting in hope opposite the construction site since Monday.
Jayaseelan’s wife had told her sister on Thursday, “They keep telling me not to have hope. They don’t know the power of my mind.”
Both bodies have been shifted to Royapettah GH.
ALSO READ | 17 killed in rain-related incidents in Chennai
The construction of the building is undertaken by Greentech Structural Construction for Hinduja Leyland. The police are yet to book either of the companies, media reports said. Follow channel on WhatsApp
