Parents of drowned sailor of oil tanker ship kill themselves

February 22, 2013 12:55

The middle-aged parents of a Pratibha Cauvery sailor who drowned after the ship ran aground off the Chennai coast on October 31 committed suicide by hanging at their residence in Arakkonam on Friday.

They left behind a suicide note which blamed the government and the shipping agency for negligence and inaction.Sailor Niranjan's father K N Kothandapani, 56 and mother S K Bharathi, 50, were found hanging from the same rope, police said.

Niranjan was among the five sailors who drowned after they abandoned the ship and their lifeboat capsized near the Besant Nagar beach. Read

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