A woman inspector rescued a 28-year-old man who was lying unconscious and suspected, initially, to be dead.
The man, identified as Udayakumar, was an assistant at the cemetery in T.P. Chatram.
On Thursday morning, the police control room received a message that a man was lying unconscious at the cemetery. He was initially suspected to be dead as a tree branch had fallen on him. The message was passed on to the T.P. Chatram police inspector Rajeshwari, who rushed to the spot.
She found the man to be alive and immediately lifted him and carried him on her shoulder to an autorickshaw. Ms. Rajeshwari rushed him to Government Kilpauk Hospital where he is under treatment.
Rescue and relief
Police personnel have been rendering assistance to people affected by rain and doing various relief work at the respective jurisdiction.
Peravallur inspector Barani said, “We have 10 teams in our range and WhatsApp group connecting residents in Jawahar Nagar and have been extending relief and assistance to the needy. We deploy boats and supply bubble top water cans to the residents who request us to provide drinking water. We buy essentials and supply them on request.”
A police team volunteered to remove the blockage in sewer lines and slushy garbage piled on a road in Peravallur. Along with Greater Chennai City Disaster Response Team, they cleared a canal which was choked with garbage and sewage for free flow of rainwater.
Commissioner of Police Shankar Jiwal had asked the police teams to rescue people living in low-lying areas. The police said 2,980 people, including 1,127 men, 1,255 women and 598 children, who were stranded in flooded low-lying areas, were shifted by the the police to 69 temporary relief centres.
The police removed fallen trees from the Mambalam police quarters, Kodambakkam, Taylors Road, Virugambakkam and TTK Road.
