CHENNAI: A truck coming to the city with 10 tonnes of iron rods was found at Mambakkam on the Chennai-Bengaluru highway on Wednesday without its consignment. The body of the driver, identified as 38-year-old Kannan alias 'Ganja' Kannan, was found in a lake at Pathambakkam village near Oragadam. A gang of highway robbers is suspected to have waylaid the truck, murdered the driver and escaped with the loot. Police said their inquiries revealed that Kannan, a resident of Vyasarpadi, had been asked by his employer, also called Kannan, to deliver the consignment at a factory...
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