More than 24 hours after sanitation worker went missing in Amayizhanjan canal, rescue operations still on

Joy's body was located around a kilometre away from the spot he went missing, from a canal stretch behind Sree Chitra Home at Thakarapparambu reported The New Indian Express reported. The heavy rainfall in the city swept the body away.

Joy, 47 was a contractual labourer who set out to clean parts of the Amayizhanchan Canal which runs through the state capital on Saturday with two others, news agency PTI reported. The deceased had gone missing on Saturday while cleaning the canal tunnel near the Thampanoor Central Railway Station.

The two other workers Rajeev and Manoj confirmed that the body was of Joy, news agency ANI reported. "Today at 9:30 am, we also went to search and were among the first to find the body. The dead body was found between Uppalamoodu and Thakarapparambu," one of the workers told ANI.