A pall of gloom descended at Parandapalli village near Jolarpet town in Tirupattur district on Thursday after a family of four persons, including two girls, natives of the village, were washed away in flash floods that was triggered by incessant rains in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh the previous day.
The deceased were identified as Rajesh Kumar, 45, R. Pavithra, 38, R. Soundiriya, 8, and R. Sowmika, 6. Mr. Kumar was a civil engineer and was working in a firm near Raipur for nearly 15 years. He was living with his family in Chhattisgarh.
