Kottayam > The body of a stringer and a car driver of Mathrubhumi news channel team, who had gone missing following a country boat tragedy in a canal near Vaikom, were found on Tuesday.
Body of Saji Megas, stringer of the channel, was found soon after the diving teams of fire force and Navy resumed search operation on Tuesday morning. The rescue team found the body of Bipin, the missing car driver of the news channel team later in the evening.
The dead bodies were handed over to his relatives after autopsy at the Government Medical College hospital, Kottayam.
Two members of the media team that had gone to cover the flood-hit areas near Vaikom were reported missing on Monday as the country boat carrying them capsized in the canal.Mathrubhumi channel's Kottayam staff reporter K B Sreedharan and cameraman Abhilash, who were also in the boat, were rescued by local people in another boat. The ferryman was also rescued by them.
Police, fire and rescue service personnel and locals had launched a search soon after the incident last afternoon but had to be called off by night fall. Despite launching the rescue operations soon, the rescue team couldn’t save their lives. Sreedharan and Abhilash have been admitted to a hospital.
