ON PIOUS JANAMASHTMI 14 KILLED IN A TRAGIC ACCIDENT IN GARHWAL, UTTARAKHAND

When the entire India is celebrating the birthday of Lord Krishna worshipping and seeking his blessings a family of eight and six other ill fated passengers in Garhwal Uttarakhand met their sad end in an accident while coming back from Gangotri for the Janmaashtmi celebrations.

As per the news reports pouring in from various sources about fourteen persons have met their extremely tragic end on the Gangotri Highway of Uttarakhand today when a tempo traveller they were travelling in fell into a several metres down gorge near a village in Garhwal known as Kujjan Gaon.

It’s a God’s curse or bad omen say people here that during the last six months Uttarakhand had been confronted with several accidents, natural disasters like deluge, massive landslides, cloud bursts’ tragedies and killings by man eaters etc claiming hundreds of lives. Just in last month in the mid of July an over loaded bus carrying 62 passengers killed 48 of them in the Garhwal region’s Dhumakot area followed by several other fatal accidents.

As per the latest reports the road on which the tempo traveller was plying was covered with the silt and muck of the landslide and the driver could’nt control the vehicle which skidded and finally fell into the gorge taking several dangerous acrobatics, finally killing 14 persons on the spot.

Two of the minor girls were lucky enough to have been alive despite severely injured who’d been referred to the Dehradun hospital by the Uttarkashi hospital authorities but could not be air lifted due to the inclement weather.

According to the eye witnesses’ account the passengers hailed from the Akoli village and were returning from Gangotri for Janmashtmi celebrations. There had also been complaints that the ambulances reached the accident site quite late as is the usual case in Uttarakhand.

The government should consider this case as an extremely passionate one and adequately compensate the bereaved families financially as well as by way of providing a government job to the next of the kin.

What is most tragic about this tragedy is the fact that about eight members of the single family have been wiped out in this horrendous accident.

May the Almighty give peace to the departed souls and strength to the bereaved families to bear this most irreperable loss. Om Shanti.