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Prisoners forgo breakfast

By A.V. Ragunathan

CUDDALORE, JULY 19. About 600 convicts in the Cuddalore Central Prison today skipped breakfast, mourning the Kumbakonam fire victims. All 2,014 inmates participated in a prayer meeting held on the jail premises and observed a two-minute silence. Some of them shed tears, the Jail Superintendent, K. Thiagarajan, told The Hindu .

Ever since the news was flashed on television and radio, the inmates had been in a dejected mood. They could not reconcile themselves to the fact that so many young children were consumed by fire, that too at a school. Some of them reminisced how they brought up their wards, and felt as if a personal tragedy struck them.

Elsewhere in Cuddalore district, students attended special prayer meetings in their schools.

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