Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (SP)

Udupi, Jul 3: The Uttaranchal police have confirmed that three persons from undivided district of Dakshina Kannada were among those who died in an accident after a bus full of pilgrims plunged into a river on Wednesday July 2 at Uttara Kashi in Uttaranchal.

The names of the persons who lost their lives in the accident are given as Mahesh Shetty (45), son of Nittur Dombu Shetty, Manoj Prabhu (35), son of Mohandas Prabhu and personal assistant of MLC Madhusudhan and Jayalakshmi Kamath (65), C/o Manjunath Kamath, Karkala. Umavathi, daughter of K Shivaram from Karkala who is missing, suspected to have been drowned.

Anupama, daughter of Atmaram from Bangalore, Dayanand and Gururaj Acharya from Mangalore, Shakila Shetty from Kadri Kambla and Uma Chiplunkar from Karkala have been injured.

BJP Dakshina Kannada district general secretary Srikar Prabhu has informed that the state chief minister B S Yeddyurappa has spoken to Uttaranchal chief minister B S Khanduri over phone and asked him to extend all possible help to the injured and close ones of the deceased relating to the falling of a bus comprising of pilgrims from the undivided Dakshina Kannada district in that state. A three-member team headed by MLC Capt Ganesh Karnik including two superintendent of police-level officers Amruth Paul and Sanjay Sahai, has left for Uttaranchal on Thursday July 3, to help the victims.