KHAIRABERA (JHARKHAND): They grew up in the identical sleepy hamlet, taking part in, cracking jokes and waking up collectively. However destiny performed a merciless joke and life modified fully for the Bediya household of Khairabera in 11 days.
First, information that 22-year-old Rajendra Bediya and his two brothers, Anil Bediya (22) and Sukhram Bediya (23), had been trapped within the Uttarkashi tunnel shocked the household on November 12.
Late on Tuesday, information of the unintended dying of Dinesh Bediya and Shankar Bediya, additionally of their twenties, left everybody within the family shattered. “It’s been a each day routine for me to push my physically-challenged husband Shravan in a wheelchair to the village sq. each morning to listen to the newest information from the tunnel in Silkyara. However immediately we acquired information that their cousins, Dinesh and Shankar, who had been greater than blood brothers for them, are gone,” stated tribal girl Phool Kumari Devi, crying.On Tuesday a rushing truck overturned after the driving force misplaced management and hit three different autos, together with a automobile and a tractor, from the rear on NH-33. Each Dinesh (22) and Shankar (29), who had been travelling on the tractor, died on the spot.
“We obtained 50 kg of rice and two our bodies from the authorities. What about our loss,” requested Phool Kumari Devi, who was nonetheless ready within the village sq. to listen to information from Uttarakhand as darkness fell.
Stranded within the tunnel in Silkyara, Rajendra Bediya and his two brothers haven’t any clue of the tragedy again dwelling. “We don’t need them to know something but. We at the moment are praying for his or her life and hoping they are going to come again strolling, and never in an ambulance,” stated one other villager.
When TOI visited Khairabera village, in Ranchi district’s Oremanjhi block, on Wednesday, Shravan, incapacitated by a stroke, tearfully requested who now would replace him about his three sons caught within the tunnel.
“Babu, mere heere ke baare me koi khabar laye hain kya (Have you ever introduced any details about my sons stranded within the tunnel),” he requested.
Shravan stated Dinesh and Shankar had been a giant help after three youngsters migrated in the hunt for jobs. “Dinesh used to inform me no matter was being accomplished to rescue the labourers. Now who will inform me about my son,” stated Shravan, weeping inconsolably.
When his son Rajendra left for Uttarkashi together with Anil and Sukhram, it was Dinesh who had gone to the railway station to see them off.
Charku (75) and Barhan (60), two neighbours, say poverty is why youngsters from the village are trapped at risk whereas they sit at dwelling. “We’re all previous and may do nothing besides look ahead to our sons,” Charku stated.
The village is almost 500 metres from the Ranchi-Patna nationwide freeway. Numerous villagers work in stone crushing items as labourers, whereas some youths work as tractor drivers. Others migrate.
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