TIRUPPUR: Six people, including two school students, drowned in Amaravathi River at Dharapuram in Tiruppur district on Monday evening. According to police sources, a group of 30 friends and relatives of Annamalai Garden at Iduvai in Tiruppur city, left for Dindigul district on Monday morning for taking part in a festival at Muniyappa Temple at Ottanchattram town.
After the festival, eight people returned to Tiruppur in a van. When they reached Dharapuram-Karur Road, near Amaravathi New Bridge, they parked the van along the road and decided to take a dip in the river.
As soon as they entered the water, all the eight got sucked in by the river’s strong water currents, and they started shouting for help.
A group of villagers, who tried in vain to rescue them, informed Dharapuram fire services personnel. A team of firemen managed to rescue Saran (16) and Jeeva (17) an admitted them to Dharapuram Government Hospital. Police identified the victims as M Amirtha Krishnan (18), R Sridhar (17), T Yuvan (19), T Mohan (17), M Sakkaravarman(18), and R Ranjith (20), a college student. Mohan and Sridhar are school students.