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Amarinder Singh bereaved

Staff Correspondent

Cousin and her daughter killed in road accident

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister, Amarinder Singh was bereaved when his cousin, Aman Kaur, who along with her eight years old daughter, Anahat were killed in a car accident near Dhanaula town of Sangrur on Saturday as they were travelling Abulkhurana village in Muktsar district to attend the `bhog' ceremony of another relative.

According to Ms Kaur's family and a state government release, the mishap took place when their car collided head on with a truck from the opposite direction. The driver of the car also died in the crash.

The 33year-old Ms Kaur, was the daughter of former MLA and Convenor of a human rights group, the Movement Against State Repression (MASR), Inderjit Singh Jaijee. She was pursuing a doctorate degree, in the Panjab University, on suicides by farmers, a subject that had been highlighted by her father. Mr. Jaijee is the maternal uncle of Capt. Singh and the husband of the late Daljit Kaur, who superannuated as Principal Secretary of General Administration in the State government in 2004. Sharing the grief over the tragic demise of Ms Kaur and young Anahat, the Chief Minister visited the bereaved family in Mohali. Capt Singh's mother, Rajmata Mohinder Kaur shared the agony of the family.

Later, Capt. Singh attended the last rites at the local cremation grounds Sector 25 and laid wreaths on the bodies. As Gurpreet Singh Sidhu lit the pyre of his wife and daughter, a pall of gloom descended on those present.

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