CHANDIGARH: Teenaged Tamil Nadu paddler
Vishwa Deenadayalan
, who landed in Guwahati to take part in the 83rd Senior National and
Inter-State Table Tennis Championships
in Shillong, lost his life in a road accident on Sunday.
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The accident took place at Shangbangla, just after the Umily check post, when the taxi ferrying Vishwa along with three other teammates (
Ramesh Santosh Kumar
,
Abinash Prasannaji Srinivasan
and Kishore Kumar) to the Meghalaya capital, was hit by a 12-wheeler trailer and plunged into the gorge.
The taxi driver died on the spot, and Vishwa succumbed before reaching the Nongpoh Civil Hospital. The doctors declared him brought dead., The three other teammates suffered severe injuries.
The organisers of the championships, with the Meghalaya government’s help, rushed them to the North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS) in Shillong for critical care. The team of doctors attending to them said the boys were stable. Competition manager N. Ganeshan also visited the three paddlers at the Institute.
Vishwa’s father and a couple of family members are expected to land here tonight and the paddler’s embalmed body will be flown to Chennai on Monday morning. The officials of the Meghalaya
Table Tennis
Association and that of the Ribhoi district administration at Nongpoh have been tasked to oversee the completion of all the formalities.
Vishwa, a promising player with several national ranking titles and international medals to his credit, was to represent India at the WTT Youth Contender at Linz, Austria, from April 27.