2 medicos, teacher drown in West Indies
Subburaj.A@timesgroup.com 02.04.2018
Coimbatore: Two students from Annur in Coimbatore and Bengaluru who were studying second year medicine at St Lucia in West Indies drowned while they were taking photos on the rocks at Cannelles beach. Boopathy, a native of Salem and lecturer at the university, drowned while trying to save the students. So far, West Indies police have retrieved the bodies of the students and a search is on to retrieve the body of the lecturer.
The deceased, identified as G Bhuvana Gangeswaran, 21, from Annur in Coimbatore and Indhumathi from Bengaluru, were studying second year medicine at Spartan Health Sciences University School of Medicine at St Lucia in West Indies.
Gangeswaran’s family said he and six of his friends had organised a get-together at Cannelles Beach on Saturday to celebrate the completion of their second year at college.
At around 11.54 am local time, the students and Boopathy, who had accompanied them, were taking photographs on the rocks at the beach when a large wave submerged two of them. Boopathy tried save the two. Although police retrieved the bodies of Gangeswaran and Indhumathi, they were not able to retrieve Boopathy’s body. The university authorities contacted the family members of the deceased over phone on Saturday afternoon.
Meanwhile, Gangeswaran’s elder brother told media persons that West Indies police on being contacted said they will take at least a week’s time to send the body due to Easter holidays. “We request the Union government and state government to take necessary steps to bring the dead body of Gangeswaran immediately to India,” he said.
Subburaj.A@timesgroup.com 02.04.2018
Coimbatore: Two students from Annur in Coimbatore and Bengaluru who were studying second year medicine at St Lucia in West Indies drowned while they were taking photos on the rocks at Cannelles beach. Boopathy, a native of Salem and lecturer at the university, drowned while trying to save the students. So far, West Indies police have retrieved the bodies of the students and a search is on to retrieve the body of the lecturer.
The deceased, identified as G Bhuvana Gangeswaran, 21, from Annur in Coimbatore and Indhumathi from Bengaluru, were studying second year medicine at Spartan Health Sciences University School of Medicine at St Lucia in West Indies.
Gangeswaran’s family said he and six of his friends had organised a get-together at Cannelles Beach on Saturday to celebrate the completion of their second year at college.
At around 11.54 am local time, the students and Boopathy, who had accompanied them, were taking photographs on the rocks at the beach when a large wave submerged two of them. Boopathy tried save the two. Although police retrieved the bodies of Gangeswaran and Indhumathi, they were not able to retrieve Boopathy’s body. The university authorities contacted the family members of the deceased over phone on Saturday afternoon.
Meanwhile, Gangeswaran’s elder brother told media persons that West Indies police on being contacted said they will take at least a week’s time to send the body due to Easter holidays. “We request the Union government and state government to take necessary steps to bring the dead body of Gangeswaran immediately to India,” he said.
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