11 techies killed in Maha bus mishap
Saturday’s fatal bus accident left in its wake the shattered dreams and aspirations of the families of 11 software engineers who died in the accident. Fifteen of them, fresh recruits of city-based IT giant TCS, had embarked on the pilgrimage on Friday evening to Shirdi.
All of them, hailing from Visakhapatnam and Vizianagaram, had just finished six months of training with the company and most had studied in Maharaj Vijayaram Gajapati Raj Engineering College in Vizianagaram.
“I will never be able to go back to my room. I had lived with my best friend there and now she is no more. She had been with me for years and I don’t know what to do. I came here to recheck on the information hoping that it would be wrong, but it isn’t,” said a visibly shaken Ms Varsha.
“We had studied together in college and were part of a close-knit group. We were all looking forward to great careers after realising the software engineer dream. Till yesterday evening we were inseparable and now I had to call up their parents to inform them about the tragedy,” said TCS employee Vishal as he broke down.
As soon as news of the accident reached the TCS campus early in the day, some employees rushed to the office of Sree Kaleswari Travels at Ladkikapul. Company officials were alerted and the tragic news was broken to the parents of the deceased among whom were twin sisters Divya Pynda and Deepthi Pynda, as well as Krishna Sahitya who was her parents’ only child.
Meanwhile, relatives of the deceased employees had a tough time at the travel agent’s office getting news of their loved ones as there was no one there to give any information.
A visibly shattered Mr Navakush, a software engineer’s uncle who had reached the office, was seen pleading with everyone for confirmation whether his nephew Shekhar’s name was in the dead persons’ list.
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