A 10-year-old boy, continues to wait for his parents to return
The lone survivor from the mishap Sai Kiran
Visakhapatnam: Still in shock, the lone survivor of the road mishap at Rajahmundry which claimed the lives of 22 members of the same family, a 10-year-old boy, continues to wait for his parents to return.
“My father and mother have gone to work and my sister to school. I will soon join her,” the boy, E. Sai Kiran, said, bringing tears to the eyes of anyone who hears him. Shifted from the Government General Hospital, Rajahmundry to the corporate hospital in the city, Sai Kiran is currently undergoing treatment for his injuries at the expense of the government.
When asked, his grief-stricken aunt Pydamma, who is tending to him at the hospital, said that Sai Kiran was still not informed of the deaths of his family members. When contacted, Yelamanchili MLA P. Ramesh Babu, who had announced that he would adopt the boy, said “If we relocate the boy to the city, he may face negative psychological consequences due to absence of familiar faces around him. I believe he should continue in his old school until familiarity increases between us. I will later shift him to my house in the city.”
Meanwhile, Atchutapuram police has deployed a constable at the hospital to smoothen the process of Sai Kiran’s hospitalisation and other proceedings. The duty doctor said that the boy’s injuries were minor in nature and he can be shifted to the general ward in a day or two.
With the boy complaining of excruciating jaw pain, they ordered an X-Ray of the chin. The tragic accident, which occurred in the wee hours of Saturday, had resulted in death of 22 people travelling in a van after it fell off of Dowleswaram Barrage.
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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