Kerala: Sanitation worker's body found after 3-day search in canal below railway tracks
Kerala: Sanitation worker's body found, after 3-day search in canal below railway tracks
On the third day of a multi-agency rescue operation, the mortal remains of Joy, a sanitation worker has been recovered from a canal, located about a kilometre away from the Central station in Kerala's capital city, Thiruvananthapuram.
Joy is said to have ventured into the underground canal around Saturday noon to conduct routine cleaning, when he was washed away by a sudden current of water, amid heavy rain during the ongoing Southwest monsoon in Kerala's Southernmost district.
In the immediate aftermath of Joy being washed away, fellow workers who were gathered in the vicinity threw a rope into the canal, hoping that Joy could hold on to it. However, knowing that he was unable to grab the rope, the Fire Service personnel were called in to attempt a rescue. The Fire Service personnel were joined by the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel in the late hours of Saturday.
Through Sunday, the NDRF personnel and their scuba divers, assisted by the Fire Service, had been attempting to rescue Joy. Personnel who had been carrying out the rescue told WION that there were multiple obstacles in navigating through the underground canal.
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"The canal is around 117 meters in length and 1.8 metres high (6 feet). The bottom layer of the canal is filled with slush, and on top of that there is water and massive quantities of plastic waste," an NDRF official elaborated to WION. This was among the reasons why the rescue dragged on into the third day.
On Monday, there were a total of 100 personnel from the Indian Navy, NDRF and Fire Service, involved in this rescue operation. Scuba divers from the Indian Navy and NDRF were deployed in the search operation. However, the mortal remains were spotted at a canal that was nearly a kilometre away from the Railway Station. The mortal remains were later identified as those of Joy, following which the search operations were suspended around noon.
