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| Shocked victims recall nightmare |
| Shocked victims recall nightmare on expressway
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| INDIA
, 29-May-2012
4:33:30 AM |
| Within hours, joyous celebrations that mark every Indian wedding had given way to gloom of death and feeling of loss. normalcy for the relatives, neighbours and friends of the victims in Laxminagar area of Yerawada.
As the news of the tragedy spread in the early hours of Monday, friends and relatives of the deceased and injured reached the homes of the bridegroom and other victims at Laxminagar and Nagpur chawl in Yerawada.
Three families, including that of Eknath Bahule, the bridegroom, have been particularly hard hit. Shreekant Kamble, 40, his wife Nirmala and their 13-year-old daughter Shraddha died in the accident, while their 10-year-old son Omkar Kamble miraculously survived. Shreekant worked as a driver and Nirmala was employed as a doemstic help, while Shraddha was a class IX student.
They left for the wedding in the morning and were expected to return by midnight on Sunday. We received news at 3 am that their bus had met with an accident and several people had died," said Harsha Kamble, a relative of the family.
Dipak Sonawane lost his wife and two sons in the accident. He said, "We were returning from Mumbai and our driver halted the bus on the roadside near Khalapur toll plaza, as the vehicle had developed some problem. Several people got down from the bus for some fresh air, when suddenly a truck collided with our bus. I lost my wife, Reshma and two sons Swapnil and Om."
Kalpana Ajay Bahule, 32, wife of the bridegroom's cousin and her 8-year-old daughter Arya also lost their lives in the accident.
The bridegroom's mother, Leela Bahule, said the marriage ceremony got over at 8 pm on Sunday and they began the return journey to Pune at 10 pm from Ghatkopar in Mumbai. The groom's party had three minibuses, in which their relatives and friends were on their way back to Pune.
"Our bus halted at the side of the highway near Khalapur toll p
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