Eight Sabarimala pilgrims killed in accident on Kumuli-Theni ghat section
The Hindu
KUMULI
Eight persons from Theni district, who were returning from Sabarimala shrine in Kerala after darshan, died in a road accident when the car in which they were travelling fell inside a 50-ft deep gorge near Kumuli ghat section on Friday night.
Two others including a seven-year-old boy who suffered multiple injuries were rushed to Theni Government Medical College and Hospital.
Preliminary inquiries by the police revealed that the vehicle lost control and bumped off the ghat section and fell into the gorge. Police, fire and rescue service personnel from Theni and Kerala state rushed to the spot for the rescue operations.
The vehicle was found to have hit the Penstock (pipelines which carry water to the hydro-electric reservoir) and fallen over by the side of the Mulla Periyar power project pipelines.
Police said that 10 people from Shanmugasundarapuram village near Andipatti in Theni district left for Sabarimala two days ago. When they were returning home, the accident occurred at Iraichalpalam (S bend), near Kumuli ghat section.
The names of the deceased, all from Andipatti, were given by the police as: S Sivakumar (45), S Vinod (43), R Nagaraj (46), A Gopalakrishnan (42), N Kannichami (60), M Kalaichelvan (38), P Devadas (55) and P Muniandi (55). Two persons, N Raja (50) and R Hariharan (7) who were injured, were admitted in Theni GMCH.
The rescue operation got delayed due to poor visibility and cold conditions on the ghat road. Theni SP Dongare Pravin Umesh, who supervised the rescue operations with his team of officers, told The Hindu that the incident occurred around 11 p.m. on Friday night.
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