SYDNEY, 8 March 2022: Tragedy stuck a mother-son duo in the current NSW floods. The bodies of mother and son were located and retrived by NSW police after a car was found in a stormwater canal at Wentworthville at 4.30 pm yesterday (Monday 7 March 2022). Police checked the vehicle and found personal possessions inside; however, they were unable to locate the car’s owner, a 67-year-old woman, or her 34-year-old son, who was believed to be with her.
An investigation commenced into their whereabouts.
About 8.20 am today (Tuesday 8 March 2022), emergency services were called to Coopers Creek Canal, near Hopkins Street, Constitution Hill, after reports a body had been sighted in the water. With assistance from specialist resources including Police Rescue and the SES, the body of a woman was pulled from the water.
A short time later, officers searching nearby located the body of a man in the water, which was retrieved by Police Divers.
The bodies believed to be those of the woman and man are reportedly that of Hemalathasolhyr Satchithanantham (67) and her son Bramooth(34). The deceased are suspected to have died after their car was swept away in the flood.
Crime scenes have been established and an investigation into the circumstances surrounding how the vehicle came to be in the canal and their deaths is underway.
New South Wales has been impacted by widespread heavy and locally intense rainfall since Tuesday 22 Feb 2022. Severe Storms and heavy rainfall impacted the Northern parts of NSW causing extensive flooding to communities in the Northern Rivers region. As a result, many communities in the Northern Rivers region have experienced significant flood and storm damage.
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