The decaying body of a man was recovered from a marshy area under the Thannikkonam railway bridge near Perunguzhi in Chirayinkeezhu police station limits on Sunday evening. The man has been identified as Shankar, 46, from North Perumal Street in Madurai, as per the driver’s licence recovered from the body. The police suspect him to have fallen from a moving train.
The body, the police say, is around five days old and had gone unnoticed as it was at a area through which people hardly pass.
It was first spotted by a few local people on Sunday evening. The body has been shifted to the morgue at the medical college hospital and the police have taken steps to contact his family.