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09.05.2020

213 samples taken from Trichy markets test negative

All the 213 samples collected from vendors, loadmen and drivers in wholesale and retail vegetable markets in Trichy tested negative for Covid-19. After the Koyambedu vegetable market in Chennai became a hotspot, the Trichy Corporation collected 180 samples from G Corner wholesale vegetable market and 33 samples from Chathiram retail vegetable market. Five samples of loadmen were suspected to be Covid-19 positive. So retests were conducted, and the corporation on Friday confirmed that all 213 results were negative. Residents have asked the corporation to enhance surveillance at the markets, even as the civic body is planning to shift focus towards frontline workers like policemen, revenue department officials and sanitary workers.

Youth murdered by roommate after drunken brawl: A 21-year-old taxi driver was killed by his roommate over a drunken brawl at KRG Nagar near Ganapathy in Coimbatore early on Friday. The deceased, E Siva alias Sivakumar, 21 from Uthamapalayam in Theni district, was staying at a rented room at KRG Nagar near Ganapathy, along with S Manikandan, 23, a car mechanic from Velayuthampalayam in Karur district, and four others.

On Thursday night, they were drinking at their room when Sivakumar, who was in love, used a razor to inflict injuries on his hand upon remembering his girlfriend. Manikandan laughed at Siva and advised him against causing self-harm in the name of his girlfriend. However, arguments turned into a heady quarrel between the two, but the two were pacified by their roommates, following which all of them went to sleep. On Friday around 4 am, Manikandan woke up in a fit of rage and assaulted Siva using a dumbbell and left the place. Sivakumar was found dead in a pool of blood by his roommates, who informed police.

Two drunk men drown in Erode while bathing: Two people have drowned in separate incidents near Kodumudi in Erode district while they were bathing in a well and canal, respectively, while drunk. In the first incident, a 50-year-old man was found dead in a well in Velappampalayam village near Kodumudi on Thursday evening. He was B Sakthivel. In another incident, 22-year-old K Parthiban, of SNB Nagar in Kodumudi town, drowned while bathing in Pugaluran canal in an inebriated state with his friends on Thursday evening.

3 country-made bombs seized in Madurai: The Madurai police, on Friday, seized three country-made bombs from a house in Jai Nagar, Ponmeni and arrested a 29-year-old man, who has several cases pending against him. The SS Colony police, while looking for Sarathkumar N, who has several charges including criminal intimidation against him, raided the residence of his associate, Nitish Kumar, 23, in Ponmeni and seized three country-made bombs, explosive powder, nails and a long knife.