Chennai: A 56-year-old mattress trader drowned after his autorickshaw plunged into Krishna canal near Uthukottai in Tiruvallur district on Saturday.Police said Murugesan, 56, of Surapet near Puzhal, and his associate, Suman, 44, travelled from village to village selling mattresses. On Saturday, they finished work at Ponthavakkam near Uthukottai and stopped near Krishna canal. While Suman was bathing at a pump set on a nearby farmland, Murugesan attempted to move the parked auto. He lost control of the vehicle, and it plunged into the waterbody.Firefighters and police retrieved the submerged auto and recovered Murugesan’s body after a search operation. The body was sent to Tiruvallur Government Medical College Hospital for postmortem. Pennalurpet police have registered a case.
