The body of a student from Tamil Nadu who drowned in the Philippines, where he was pursuing medical education, arrived here in the early hours of Monday. As a special case, the Tamil Nadu Government paid the expenses to fly the body down from the Philippines.
B. Sashti Kumar, a native of Bodinayakkanur in Theni drowned at a water fall in the Philippines on January 15. Former Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam requested Chief Minister M.K. Stalin to bring the body of the student from the foreign country to his native place, an official release said.
