Bodies of conservancy workers handed over to families

Minor tension prevailed at the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital on Wednesday after the families of the two conservancy workers who died in an accident at Ikkarai Boluvampatti village on Tuesday ref

Minor tension prevailed at the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital on Wednesday after the families of the two conservancy workers who died in an accident at Ikkarai Boluvampatti village on Tuesday refused to accept the bodies. R. Palani (60) from Valluvar Street and M. Palanisamy (50) from Gandhi Nagar, Semmedu, died after the battery-operated three-wheeler they travelled along with seven others veered off the rod and plunged into a slope at Ikkarai Boluvampatti. Rasu (50), Marimuthu (55), Ammasai (65), Selvi (50), Marimuthu (55), Kamalam (65) and Arukkani (55) were injured in the accident that took place when they were returning home after doing conservancy works at Ikkarai Boluvampatti panchayat, said the police. The kin accepted the bodies after the police and Revenue Department officials held talks with them and pacified them. A former doctor at the Coimbatore Medical College died allegedly after she had an accidental fall from the sixth floor of her apartment in the city on Tuesday.