A daily wage labourer from Korukkupet died on Sunday night after he fell into a ditch near the railway tracks along the Korrukkupet-Basin Bridge junction.
An officer attached to the Government Railway Police said people living near the tracks alerted the police that a body was floating in the ditch.
A team immediately rushed to the spot and found the body of a person aged around 40 in the ditch.
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Victim identified
The police have identified the victim as Jayavelu of Meenambal Nagar. The family of the victim had given a man missing complaint after he did not return home for more than a day.
The body was sent to the Government Stanley Medical College Hospital for post-mortem.
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