Tanvir Siddiqui
Ahmedabad, April 21: He was to return home to his family after being on duty for 60 days. But what came home was his body. Om Prakash Singh, a Western Railway employee was killed when the Sabarmati Express rammed into a goods train on Thursday morning. A pall of gloom decended on Suryakiran Society in Ghodasar where 45-year-old Singh, an AC coach attendant on Sabarmati Express, lived with his small family.
A native of Mau tehsil in Uttar Pradesh’s Azamgarh district, Singh lived in his modest tenement with wife Shanti, 22-year-old son Sanjay, daughter in-law Seema and two-year-old granddaughter Khushi.
Singh, who earlier lived in Khokhra railway colony, had moved to his new house only a year ago.
On receiving the news of his father’s death, Sanjay immediately left for Vadodara with his employer leaving a message for Seema that he had to rush for an urgent work. But long before his return at around 4 pm, women of the house had been informed through others.
The news was too shocking for the family to take. There was no relative to console the grieving family. Sanjay, who had gone through the ordeal of seeing Singh’s body in the post-mortem room of SSG Hospital, suffered a seizure on reaching home and lost consciousness. Kushi looked around bewildered as neighbours gathered in large numbers for paying their condolences.
Harishchandra Singh, a neighbour, said that Singh had planned a vacation with his family in Mau. He was very happy and had also got the rail tickets reserved. The Singhs were to leave for Mau on April 26, but fate had something else in store for them.
“The trauma is too much for Om Prakash’s family to take. The last rites will be performed in his nativ village,” said Harishchandra who is lucky to have his sister, her husband and their two children — travelling in the ill-fated train — arrive home safe. Harishchandra too hails from the same village as Om Prakash.
“They rang me up early morning about the accident and said that they were all safe,” he said adding that the grief of losing a loving neighbour overcame that joy.
Ahmedabad, April 21: He was to return home to his family after being on duty for 60 days. But what came home was his body. Om Prakash Singh, a Western Railway employee was killed when the Sabarmati Express rammed into a goods train on Thursday morning. A pall of gloom decended on Suryakiran Society in Ghodasar where 45-year-old Singh, an AC coach attendant on Sabarmati Express, lived with his small family.
A native of Mau tehsil in Uttar Pradesh’s Azamgarh district, Singh lived in his modest tenement with wife Shanti, 22-year-old son Sanjay, daughter in-law Seema and two-year-old granddaughter Khushi.
Singh, who earlier lived in Khokhra railway colony, had moved to his new house only a year ago.
On receiving the news of his father’s death, Sanjay immediately left for Vadodara with his employer leaving a message for Seema that he had to rush for an urgent work. But long before his return at around 4 pm, women of the house had been informed through others.
The news was too shocking for the family to take. There was no relative to console the grieving family. Sanjay, who had gone through the ordeal of seeing Singh’s body in the post-mortem room of SSG Hospital, suffered a seizure on reaching home and lost consciousness. Kushi looked around bewildered as neighbours gathered in large numbers for paying their condolences.
Harishchandra Singh, a neighbour, said that Singh had planned a vacation with his family in Mau. He was very happy and had also got the rail tickets reserved. The Singhs were to leave for Mau on April 26, but fate had something else in store for them.
“The trauma is too much for Om Prakash’s family to take. The last rites will be performed in his nativ village,” said Harishchandra who is lucky to have his sister, her husband and their two children — travelling in the ill-fated train — arrive home safe. Harishchandra too hails from the same village as Om Prakash.
“They rang me up early morning about the accident and said that they were all safe,” he said adding that the grief of losing a loving neighbour overcame that joy.
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