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Tragic tales of separation

Staff Reporter

KAKINADA: A man and his son were among the passengers of the ill-fated Gautami Express who were separated from their family in Amalapuram.

Forty eight-year-old S. Trinadha Rao, a farmer undergoing treatment at the Indo-American Cancer Institute in Hyderabad, was returning after undergoing chemotherapy, along with his son Sekhar who had just completed industrial training and was trying to seek a job. Both of them perished in the fire that swept through the Gautami Express in the early hours of Friday. His son-in-law Bhaskar Rao told The Hindu that he was recovering from the disease and would have fully recovered and carried on with his daily chores.

Similarly, there could have been nothing more shattering for B. Chenchayya, commercial tax officer at Amalapuram, than losing son Ravi Kumar and his wife Saritha in the fire accident on Gautami Express.

Saritha was married to Ravi Kumar only in September last at Guntur. With her husband, she was coming to Amalapuram for celebrating motherhood (‘Seemantham’, but both of them died on the spot. Their lives were cut short by fate. Mr. Chenchayya and his family were busy making arrangements for the happy event when the news of fire accident reached them, pushing them into sorrow. Ravi Kumar was an ayurveda practitioner at Secunderabad and his wife was also studying the same traditional branch of medicine.

They were travelling in coach No. S-10 which bore the brunt of fire.

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