Masaipet victims’ kin yet to recover

Gloom descends on family

Bhuvaneswari and Dattu, aged 8 and 6 respectively, were the daughter and of son Tumma Veerababau, who has been leading a hard life. By working sometimes round-the-clock, he was earning enough money to ensure that his two children get good education in English medium public school. While Bhuvaneswari was the student of second class, her brother was in UKG.

The parents were at first told that Bhuvaneswari was only killed in the accident and Dattu was admitted to hospital with serious injuries. The parents, who were devastated by the news of death of their daughter, had believed that their son at least escaped from jaws of death. The bloomer made by officials in declaring Dattu alive and another boy Dhanush dead led to confusion. When the parents of Dattu at last came to know that tragedy struck both their children, they became so depressed and they still remain dejected

Traumatised

The very mention of Masiapet rail-school bus collision stills makes one shudder. The story of one of the schoolgirls, Vishnavi, who died after hovering between life and death for five days in Yashoda Hospital in Secunderabd, was really tragic. Though she grew up in safe hands of her parents for 10 years, the girl later became estranged from her father, Sanjay Gowd, as he had divorced Vishnavi’s mother Sarojini. The girl was just 10 years old when her parents were separated. Her father married another woman and then went to Dubai for eking out a living. The girl’s mother came to Islampur and is living in the house of his brother. Sarojini, while leading a life of manual labourer, admitted Vishnavi in the Kakatiya Techno School last year. The mother has been shattered by the tragedy. Sanjay Gowd, on knowing the tragic death of his daughter, came back from Dubai, but he, too, looks traumatised.

Parents, sister shattered

The 12-year-old Neerudu Vamsee was the son of a lorry driver. Vamasee and his sister Vennela were students in the Kakatiya Techno School. A day before tragedy struck, Vamsee visited his paternal uncle’s house. On the next day his paternal uncle gave Vamsee Rs 10 and waited till the boy got into the school bus. Within half-an-house the news of the boy’s death in the tragedy shattered the entire family. The trauma suffered by his parents Sudarshan and Amrita is beyond description.

They rue bus ride

Sivvampeta Malla Goud and Lalitha, parents of Shruti (5) of_Venkatayapalli, rue the day the family sent the children to school by the ill-fated bus, as against the previous practice of using an auto rickshaw. They feel that the school which provided the bus ride this year without Goud asking for it had virtually killed Shruti.

His son, Varun Goud, is still undergoing treatment in Yashoda hospital, while elder daughter Ruchita has returned home, after getting cured of her injuries. After doctors stated that the condition of Varun serious, the family is worried whether he would survive, as it had already lost Shruti.

It’s hard to digest for them

Auto rickshaw driver G Swamy never hesitated to spend any amount of money for education of his two children Manish Yadav and Madhuri. All he wanted was not comforts for him but intended to educate his son and daughter to ensure that they did not lead a life of small-time employee but reached great heights. That was why he had been paying Rs 30,000 fee every year to secure good education for his son Manish Yadav. Unable to pay fee for both his son and daughter, he admitted his daughter in a government-run school in Islampur. On the day when the tragedy struck the schoolchildren, Manish’s mother after giving the boy breakfast put the lunch box in his bag. She even waited at the bus stop until the boy got into the bus and kissed him goodbye little realising that it would be last kiss.

As the news of bus tragedy spread rapidly, Swamy and his wife Amruta rushed to the scene only to see the body of their beloved son. They were too distressed to move. His sister, who always loved his brother, was seen asking her parents when Manish would return to play with her.

Mother turns mentally unstable

Wajida Begum, mother of Rashid (5) and Gousia (3) of Kishtapur, following their death in the bus mishap, has virtually become mentally unstable, feeling their absence. Her husband, Valiuddin, has been hospitalised after falling sick. Both see no purpose in their living, as they have lost both the children. An auto driver, he had admitted them in the school only this year. Unfortunately, both died within days of joining the institution.