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Bus conductor missing after traumatic experience

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L.S. Murali

BANGALORE: He saw three people being burnt to death when the bus he was in collided with a lorry. Forty nine-year-old L.S. Murali, a bus conductor with the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC), has been missing since then.

On November 23, the KSRTC bus plying between Hassan and Belgaum, met with an accident at Tadas Cross in Hubli.

Three people — the lorry driver, a woman passenger and Mr. Murali’s driver colleague William Menejas — were charred to death and the vehicles completely burnt.

“We think that must have really shook him up badly. Murali was very depressed after his wife’s death almost a year ago. He did not want to even work and renounce worldly life. But he stuck on for his 14-year-old daughter Nimisha,” L.S. Kannan, Mr. Murali’s brother told The Hindu.

B.C. Gangannagowda, KSRTC Divisional Controller, said that despite launching search drives for the last few months, they had not been successful in finding out anything about Mr. Murali.

“The last we have heard about him was what people in localities around the accident area said. Apparently, they saw a man in khaki clothes behaving in a bizarre manner and running behind other buses,” Mr. Gangannagowda said.

Mr. Kannan and his seven siblings have been on the lookout for Mr. Murali in places such as Bangalore and Hubli. “His daughter Nimisha, who has been staying with her maternal grandmother in Nanjangud, has been crying since then and has been asking for her father desperately,” Mr. Kannan said.

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