Daijiworld News Network - Puttur (GA)
Puttur, Sep 12: At last after 27 days of Hosmath Bridge tragedy, the body of the fourth victim Sandeep was found in a decomposed state at Kemmata-Kootelu on Monday September 11 afternoon. Kemmata-Kootelu is 2 kilometres away from Nadoli where the remaining 4 bodies including that of Shridha, a college girl who had committed suicide were found.
Sandeep's body was nothing but a skeleton and was identified on the basis of black T-shirt and blue jeans which he was wearing on the day of the tragedy. Sandeep's mother identified his body.
As reported earlier, all the search operations had been called off after 15 days of the tragedy during which only two bodies lorry driver Manjunath and cleaner Umesh were found. The local divers who had taken a lot of interest and put in hard work in tracing these bodies with the help and guidance of Kadaba SI Nandakumar had given up the search operations gradually.
But all the operations were resumed on Thursday September 7 after, Shridha, a student of Ramakunjeshwar College had jumped into the river. It was when the locals and the police resumed their search operations. Their efforts paid when they first found Suresh's body after which they also found Shridha's body. This led them to continue their search during which they found Sandeep’s body on Monday.
With this, the administration too has breathed a sigh of relief since it is much easier for them to hand over the compensation to the families.
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