Round a whole lot of individuals gathered in Kannadickal, a small city in Kerala’s Kozhikode district, on Saturday to pay their last respects to 30-year-old truck driver Arjun. For 71 agonizing days, his household had hoped for information of his survival after he went lacking in a devastating landslide in Karnataka. Nevertheless, their hopes had been shattered when Arjun’s physique was found inside his truck, buried beneath particles, two months later.
The emotional outpouring within the village was palpable because the ambulance carrying Arjun’s stays arrived. Buddies, neighbours and fellow truck drivers broke down in tears, struggling to come back to phrases with the loss. Individuals from all walks of life lined the streets, and lots of waited by the roadside, silently grieving because the motorcade handed by.
“We believed until some days again that Arjun was alive and is likely to be beneath remedy someplace… We by no means anticipated his return to be on this kind,” mentioned a neighbor, as reported by PTI.
His grieving household held his final rites within the compound of their home, surrounded by tearful neighbors and family members.
Shirur Landslide: Search For Arjun
Arjun had left house in July, driving a truck loaded with picket logs for supply in Karnataka. On July 16, a landslide struck the Shirur space alongside the Kochi-Panvel nationwide freeway, and Arjun went lacking. Regardless of relentless search efforts, no hint of him was discovered till Thursday, when his truck was lastly lifted from the Gangavali River in Shirur. Contained in the truck’s cabin, authorities discovered Arjun’s physique.
Karwar MLA Sathish Krishna Sail, who had carefully adopted the search operations, was among the many first to identify the physique within the truck, as reported by IANS. After being retrieved, Arjun’s physique was transported to his house in Kerala, the place an enormous crowd gathered for his last journey.
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