Pall of gloom descends over villages of victims who died in Mandya bus accident
Mass cremation of eight persons at Vadesamudra
Mandya, November 25: A pall of gloom descended over the villages of the victims who died when a private bus they were travelling in plunged into VC canal at Kanaganamaradi village in Pandavapura taluk on Saturday. Total 30 persons died in the accident. Now, there was a grave silence in the houses of the victims.
The family members and relatives who lost their children, wives, husbands and grandparents were inconsolable. No one dared to console Rani, who lost her son Ravikumar who was studying 7th standard when she was mourning. After coming home after the mass cremation, she recalled her son and could not stop crying.
Chikke Gowda-Vasanth who lost her 15-year-old son Prashanth were seen weeping looking at the marks card and medals he won. “He was a bright student in the 7th standard. He has got ‘A’ grade and became first in the class. He has got various medals in competitions”, his parents remembered.
Mass cremation
The cremation of 30 victims who lost their lives in the bus accident was conducted in their respective villages on Sunday. As it was delayed to handover the bodies to the relatives as postmortem was conducted at the place where the accident occurred, the cremation was conducted on Sunday. But some persons were cremated on Saturday late night.
Pavithra (11), Kariyamma (65), Chikkaiah (40), Kamalamma (55), Prashanth (15), Rathnamma (60), Shashikala (45), Ravikumar (12) of Vadesamudra were cremated enmass in the village. Apart from them, GK Likhitha (5), Preksha (2), Manjula (60), Chandru (35), Papanna (66), Poojary Kempaiah (50), Yashodha (18), Divya, Jayamma (50), Soumya (5), Kalpana (11), Ningamma (70), Rathnamma (50), Eraiah (60), Savitramma (40), Preethi (15), Anusha (17), Sumathi (35), Soumya (30), Shivamma (50), Mani (35), ravikumar (15) were cremated in their respective villages.
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Two injuries, one DNF, a DQ as India end messy World Relays campaign
Gaborone (Botswana) (PTI): Amoj Jacob and Ragul Kumar got injured during the men's 4x400m and 4x100 races respectively as India ended their World Athletics Relays campaign in disappointment on the second day of competitions here on Sunday.
The Indian camp had high hopes of making the 2027 World Championships in the men's 4x400m relay but the team did not finish (DNF) the race as Jacob suffered cramps and pulled out of the race after taking the baton from the first leg runner Dharamveer Choudhary. Rajesh Ramesh and Vishal TK were to run in the third and fourth legs.
Those teams which could not qualify for the 2027 Beijing World Championships by reaching the final round of each of the six relay events on Saturday were given another chance in the second qualification round on Sunday.
The top two teams in each of the two heats (in all six relay events) booked the Beijing ticket on Sunday.
India will now have to try and qualify for the World Championships through the Top Lists of the World Athletics, which is a long and tedious process.
In the men's 4x100m race, third leg runner Ragul Kumar fell down the track after failing to hand over the baton inside the exchange zone to fourth leg runner Gurindervir Singh, which clearly showed the lack of coordination among the runners.
Harsh Santosh Raut and Animesh Kujur ran the first two legs.
The Indian quartet was disqualified and Kumar was seen being taken away from the Field of Play with the help of the volunteers.
It was a comedy of errors in the case of the women's 4x100m race, which saw the baton being dropped during an exchange between first leg runner Tamanna and second runner Nithya Gandhe, though the Indians finished the race in 53.09 seconds.
Gandhe started running quite a distance, but after realising that the baton was not in her hand, she turned and ran back to pick it up.
The only silver-lining for the Indian contingent was the national record time in the mixed 4x100m relay race, though the quartet of Ragul Kumar, Nithya Gandhe, Animesh Kujur and Sneha SS finished sixth in heat number two with a time of 41.35 seconds, bettering the previous national mark of 42.30 seconds set in March in Chandigarh.
The mixed 4x400m relay quartet of Theerthesh P Shetty, Kumari Saloni, Nihal William and Rashdeep Kaur ended at fifth in heat number one with a time of 3 minutes and 19.40 seconds.
On Saturday, all the five Indian relay teams had failed to make it to the respective final rounds and thus missed out on the 2027 World Championships berths.
