A local of Mallapally here on Thursday got trapped in the mud while attending a mock drill of a flood rescue operation in Manimala river at Paduthode area here on Thursday. Palathunkal native Binu Soman (35) who met with the accident got rescued and admitted to Pushpagiri Medical College in Thiruvalla.
The mock drill has been organised under the National Disaster Relief Force, Revenue Department, Fire Force, Police, and Department of Health. Binu was one among the four locals selected to enact as a person who has to be rescued.
During the mock drill, the officials directed the four locals to stand in the river on the other bank so that the rescue officers can approach by boat and save them. Unfortunately, Binu got trapped and submerged in the mud in the river even before the rescuers arrived on the boat. But he got rescued by the team following an operation of nearly half an hour.
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