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An uneasy soundlessness hangs implicit the location of Edigi Yellaiah. It shatters lone erstwhile visitors locomotion successful to console him, triggering caller bouts of crying.
His 3 daughters — Thanusha, 22, Sai Priya, 20, and Nandini, 18 — were among the 19 radical killed connected Monday greeting erstwhile a speeding gravel-laden lorry crashed into the TSRTC autobus they were travelling in, adjacent Mirjaguda, adjacent to Chevella connected the outskirts of Hyderabad. By night, their ceremonial was conducted astatine Yellaiah’s autochthonal place, Perkampally of Tandoor successful Vikarabad district, arsenic the full colony and radical from surrounding areas gathered and wept.
Yellaiah is simply a operator and proprietor of a seven-seater rider conveyance which helium rents out. He lives successful Tandoor town. Until 6.15 a.m. connected Monday, erstwhile helium dropped his 3 daughters astatine the Tandoor autobus basal to committee a Hyderabad-bound bus, everything felt normal. Just connected October 17, helium had performed the matrimony of his eldest daughter, Anusha.
Thanusha, an MBA final-year student, and Priya and Nandini, who were pursuing their last and archetypal years of graduation, were each studying astatine Koti Women’s College successful Hyderabad. They had travel location recently, carrying blessed memories from their elder sister’s wedding. “Why did God punish maine similar this, taking distant each 3 astatine once,” questions Yellaiah, breaking down each clip idiosyncratic tries to console him.
“They bought caller apparel for maine for the wedding and made maine deterioration them. They adjacent did my make-up, saying I should look bully connected that day,” helium says, his dependable choking. After attending their sister’s wedding, the trio had returned to Hyderabad for assemblage but returned to Tandoor again to be a cousin’s wedding connected October 30.
“They were expected to travel with america to Gulbarga for the cousin’s reception. But they chose to instrumentality to Hyderabad saying they had exams,” recalls their cousin, Suresh, who besides stays successful Tandoor. “If I had forced them to travel along, they would person been alive,” helium says. The sisters had planned to permission for Hyderabad connected Sunday night, but their parent advised them to question connected Monday greeting instead.
“I dropped them astatine the autobus basal 1 aft the different connected my bike,” says Yellaiah. “They near smiling successful the greeting and by evening, they returned location dead.”
His lad Murali, a Class 10 student, and woman Vithalabai are inactive successful shock. After the constabulary completed the autopsy, the bodies were shifted to Perkampally, wherever the last rites were performed by night.
