Tangedco official loses gold chain to snatcher

Coimbatore: The Karumathampatti police are searching for a man, who snatched a 5.5-sovereign gold chain from a Tangedco assistant engineer on Friday.
The victim, Pavithra, 32, wife of Kathirvel of AVM Colony in Annur, was returning home from the Thekkalur EB station on her scooter. When she reached Kittampalayam near Karumathampatti around 7.30pm, a motorcycle-borne man snatched her gold chain. Though she chased him for one kilometre, the man managed to escape, police sources said. TNN