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Daijiworld Media Network – Udupi (SP)
Udupi, Jul 2: After a vehicle carrying pilgrims from Mumbai overturned at a road bend near Pandurli in Sinnar in the outskirts of Nasik town in Maharashtra on Sunday June 30, three from the same family, who were natives of Yermal near Padubidri, lost their lives.
The deceased have been identified as Prashanth Suvarna (35), son of Rama Suvarna, residing near Vishnu Bhajana Mandir in Bada Yermal village, his wife, Reshma Prashanth Suvarna (27), and Prashanth’s seven month-old son, Sharan Suvarna.
The victims were settled in Mumbai. They lived in Fort area in the metro. On Sunday morning, a number of families living in the same neighbourhood had hired a Chevrolet Tavera vehicle to undertake pilgrimage of Shirdi. When the driver was negotiating a road bend near Pandurli on Gooty-Sinnar Road, the vehicle went out of his control. It spun thrice before coming to a stop. Because of the impact of the spinning vehicle, doors of the vehicle were forced open, and the above couple, which was tossed outside, died instantly. Their child, Sharan, breathed his last later in a local hospital.
Four other persons suffered grave injuries in this accident. They are Kusuma Salian (41), Janaki Mendon (62), Shreya Salian (41), and Sushma Mendon (25). Driver of the vehicle, Manohar Mendon, escaped with minor injuries.
Prashanth, working for a private television channel in Mumabi, had married Reshma from Kaup Padu village near here two years ago. He had visited his native place during May this year, and had paid obeisance at holy places like Dharmasthala, before returning to Mumbai.
The bodies of the deceased persons were brought to their native place in an ambulance on Monday evening. Hundreds of people had gathered there to pay their last respects and share the grief of the family members, who were found wailing inconsolably. As Prashanth’s mother is ill, she was informed about the calamity at the last minute, and doctors had to attend to her immediately after she was informed of the tragedy.
All the three bodies were consigned to flames in a single pyre on seashore thereafter.