A man, his 13-year-old son and their relative drowned at Pudhu Thangal lake in Mullai Nagar, West Tambaram on Sunday afternoon.
Dhanraj (47) went to the lake for fishing and took his son Prabhakaran (13), a class VIII student and their relative Muthuraja (27), a construction worker. While Dhanraj was fishing, Prabhakaran asked his uncle Muthuraja to teach him swimming. After entering the lake, they ventured into the middle of the lake and began to struggle. Noticing them, Dhanraj went to their rescue, but all three of them got trapped in the slush in the lake bed, police said.
Mullai Nagar residents who noticed them from the bank jumped into the lake and managed to pull out only Dhanraj. He was rushed to a hospital nearby but was pronounced dead on arrival.
Residents also informed the Fire Control Room and Tambaram police station. Firemen continued to make a search for Prabhakaran and Muthuraja. Several incidents of death by drowning were reported in the city’s suburban lakes on Sundays in the past few weeks.
Worker killed
A 35-year-old construction worker died after a wall collapsed on him at Padi on Saturday. Appa Rao of Vishakapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, had come to Padi along with four other workers to demolish a single-storey building. As the workers were demolishing it, the wall fell on him, injuring him critically.
Several drowning incidents were reported in Chennai’s suburban lakes on Sundays
