Daijiworld News Network - Puttur (GA)
Puttur, Aug 26: It is the eleventh day since the cement-laden lorry washed out from the Hosmath Bridge near Kadaba here. Though bodies of the two drowned persons were found after 4 days of the fatal tragedy and the lorry was removed from the Gundya River on the fifth day, two more young men who drowned in the river on the same day have not yet been found.
As reported earlier a total of four persons including the driver and cleaner of the lorry had drowned in the swollen Gundya river on Tuesday August 15 while trying to cross over the submerged Hosmath Bridge. However, only driver Manjunath and cleaner Umesh's bodies were found at Nadoli after four days. But Sandeep and Suresh, the two young men who were on the lorry are still missing.
While any hopes of their survival have almost lost, some of the locals still console the family members while hoping against hope. But the expert swimmers from fire brigade squad and Home Guards are of the opinion that it is quite impossible that they are still alive.
After Manjunath and Umesh's bodies were found, hopes were there that Suresh and Sandeep might have been stuck within the submerged lorry. But when the lorry was removed, those hopes too vanished. While the entire cement load had been washed out, most of the spare parts of the lorry too were missing. So it was almost clear that both the young men too had been washed out.
Right now local team of expert swimmers led by Monappa Gowda of Nadoli who had traced the bodies of the driver and cleaner are trying to get into the river once again and search for missing men. Now even the water level in the river has subsided substantially. Bushels and rocks in the river are visible now. It is said that the locals have planned to launch a search operation on Saturday August 26 to locate the missing men.
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