In a significant street mishap, a minimum of 13 individuals, together with 11 girls, have been killed and 6 others have been critically injured when a tempo traveller collided with a truck close to Itigatti village in Karnataka’s Dharwad district on Friday morning.
Name it destiny or a stroke of dangerous luck, eleven girls passengers who met their tragic finish and 6 of them who’re nonetheless crucial are associates from their childhood days and studied in the identical college, Saint Paul Faculty – a well-liked convent college in Davangere district.
The premise of this journey was that all of them needed to relive their college days as soon as once more. They needed to go to the identical place, Goa, as they’d carried out of their college days.
Apparently, the accident befell, just some minutes away from their scheduled cease at Dharwad, the place they have been alleged to get down at one among their good friend’s farmhouse to have breakfast and refresh and proceed forward to Goa.
However sadly, their leisure journey turned out to be their final journey.
Among the many deceased, Preethi Ravikumar is the daughter-in-law of former BJP MLA Gurusiddana Gouda whereas her husband Ravikumar is a widely known physician within the district and owns a hospital, whereas one other deceased Veena Mattihalli Prakash is a widely known gynaecologist and married to a physician from the identical district whereas Paramjyothi is a relative of former Karnataka CM J. H. Patel.
A household supply near Gouda, on the situation of anonymity, informed IANS that maybe they have been a couple of group of 15 girls, who got here from very well-off households and settled in numerous components of the state, besides Preethi, Veena and two extra.
“All are of the identical age group as they have been classmates since class 1 and studied in Saint Paul college, which remains to be thought of to be one of the best English college within the district. All these girls have been finest associates and so they have been consistently in contact with one another by their WhatsApp group,” the supply said.
The supply additional added that they used to go on jolly journey commonly and maybe for the primary time they determined to go on a tour however with out taking their youngsters together with them.
“Name it a premonition or something. This time all of them determined to go on their very own,” the supply claimed.
For Preethi, this was the second journey to Goa within the hole of lower than every week, as she had gone to Goa together with her household and stayed there from vacation. “She was not listening to anybody, as she needed to relive her college life together with her finest associates and Goa is simply meant to attain that goal was her clarification. It could be the case with others too,” the supply mentioned.
Although among the relations took objections to their travelling plans as they determined to depart Davangere at wee hours of the morning that too quickly after the pageant, excited girls have been in no temper to hearken to anybody saying that one final time permits them to go on a visit with their associates.
They took a selfie simply earlier than leaving Davangere and captioned it as – “Go Goa with college Buddies”.
This tragic incident has caught the individuals’s consideration, with a number of leaders together with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Karnataka Chief Minister, B. S. Yediyurappa, Chief of the opposition, Siddarmaaiha and former Karnataka CM, H.D. Kumarswamy condoling the dying of those girls and prayed for fast restoration of these survived.