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Arjun’s woman pays her past respects successful Kozhikode. PTI
As his cortege crossed into Kannadikkal colony successful Kozhikode Saturday, scores of radical lined the roads, flowers successful hand, to bid a last farewell to Arjun, the Kozhikode-based lorry operator who died successful a landslide that deed Karnataka’s Shirur connected July 16. Still much lined up extracurricular his location successful the village.
On Saturday, 32-year-old Arjun, whose assemblage was yet fished retired of Gangavali stream connected September 25, was consigned to flames down his location astir 11.30 am. He was recovered successful the compartment of his timber-laden lorry on its way from Karnataka’s Belagavi to Edavanna successful Malappuram when the landslide deed Ankola successful Shirur. The find enactment an extremity to implicit 2 months of uncertainty.
Arjun was among 12 who went missing connected the greeting of July 16. While 9 bodies — including Arjun’s — person been found, 2 stay missing.
At Kannadikkal, thousands — not lone from the Kozhikode territory but from elsewhere successful Kerala excessively — came to wage their respects to Arjun, the hunt for whose assemblage gained wide media sum and kept the authorities connected borderline for the past 75 days.
After a DNA trial confirmed his identity, Arjun’s body was taken to Kozhikode via roadworthy Friday evening, accompanied by Karwar MLA Satish Krishna Sail, who had been camping astatine Shirur during the hunt operations, and Manjeshwar (Kerala) legislator AKM Ashraf.
When the cortege reached the district’s borders aboriginal Saturday morning, Minister AK Saseendran, MLAs Thottathil Raveendran and KK Rama, and Kozhikode District Magistrate Snehil Kumar accompanied the assemblage to Kannadikkal.
While speaking to the media connected July 19 — 3 days aft the landslide — Arjun’s household said his fig was reachable adjacent aft the landslide, initially kindling hopes of his being alive.
Meanwhile, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan wrote to his Karnataka counterpart Siddaramaiah to expedite hunt operations. The authorities Congress excessively urged the Karnataka portion to velocity up the process.
From August, however, intensifying monsoons implicit the occidental seashore of India meant the operations had to beryllium halted, and though it resumed connected August 12, it had to beryllium suspended lone a fewer days later.
On August 28, Arjun’s household met the Karnataka main curate urging him to resume the search. Karnataka agreed to wage for a floating trade dredger, which was deployed connected September 20 — 5 days earlier the assemblage was found.
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