Lockdown effect: Youth reunited with family after 10 yrs in Tumkur

Team Udayavani, May 31, 2020, 5:25 PM IST

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Tumkur: As COVID-19 is spreading day by day, it has impacted many lives of people. In a rare instance, the coronavirus pandemic helped parents to find their son who lost 10 years back.

In 2011 Krishnappa’s son Rangappa who had gone to school never returned home following which the couple filed a missing complaint, however, the police too were unable to find him during the investigation back then.

Now due to the Covid-19 outbreak, Rangappa has returned back to his grandmother’s house.

As per sources, Rangaswamy was working as a labor worker in Balki village in Bidar and due to lockdown, he returned to native as he did not have any work there.

Since Rangaswamy returned from Maharashtra border, his parents alerted the health officials and sent him for the COVID-19 test. He is been quarantined at school in Huliyuru Durga village.