Chennai: A 60-year-old gardener drowned in a water tank while attempting to retrieve a mobile phone belonging to his colleague at an apartment complex near Chengalpet on Tuesday.The deceased was identified as Nagabasan, a resident of Umaiyal Paranacheri village near Oragadam in Kancheepuram district. He was employed as a gardener at an apartment complex in Appur.Police said Nagabasan had reported for work as usual when the mobile phone of his colleague Thangaraj (70) accidentally fell into a water tank on the premises. Nagabasan entered the tank to retrieve the phone but reportedly suffered breathing difficulties and drowned.Palur police and firefighters from Sriperumbudur retrieved his body from the tank. The body was sent to Chengalpattu Government Hospital for postmortem examination.Palur police registered a case and are investigating.
