Ramakrishna Selvaraj died while 10 others suffered injuries when the bus they were travelling in met with an accident while negotiating a curve.
Mundakayam near Kottayam, Kerala.
A 40-year-old pilgrim from Tamil Nadu was killed early Monday morning, 8 January, after the bus he was travelling in with other Lord Ayyappa devotees to the Sabarimala shrine met with an accident at Mundakayam near Kottayam, Kerala.
The police said that Ramakrishna Selvaraj from Tamil Nadu died while 10 others suffered injuries when the bus they were travelling in met with an accident while negotiating a curve.
“There were a total of 22 passengers in the bus. They were on their way to Sabarimala. The accident happened at a curve near Mundakayam,” police said.
The accident happened between 12:30 am and 1 am, the police said, adding that the injured have been shifted to nearby hospitals.
This is not the first death of a Tamil Nadu resident this Sabarimala season. On 27 December, a group of eight devotees from Thyagaraya Nagar in Chennai, who had completed their darshan at the Lord Ayyappa temple in Sabarimala, were bathing in a ghat at the Pamba River near the Chengannur Mahadeva temple.
According to the police, one person initially drowned and the other attempted a rescue but both were washed away.
Fire and rescue personnel promptly arrived at the scene and recovered the bodies.
Kerala’s Cultural Affairs Minister Saji Cheriyan offered consolation to the remaining group members and provided them with an amount of ₹25,000 for essential expenses. He also arranged for the bodies of two Sabarimala pilgrims to be transported to their homes at the expense of the Kerala government.
(With PTI inputs)
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