A selfie of former students of a Davanagere school shot before the accident on Friday morning
DHARWAD: A school reunion trip to Goa ended in tragedy when 11 persons died and six were injured after their minibus collided with a sand-laden tipper on Pune-Bengaluru national highway bypass at Itigatti Cross on the outskirts of Dharwad on Friday.
Dharwad superintendent of police P Krishnakant told TOI that former students of Davanagere’s Saint Paul Convent School were heading to Goa for a three-day holiday. Nine among the dead were women and included a professor at a Davanagere medical college.
The bus met with an accident about 1km from a friend’s house in Gandhinagar, Dharwad, where the women were scheduled to have breakfast. Their batchmate Savita had arrived in Dharwad on Thursday to join the team on Goa trip.
Reunion plan ended in tragedy as 11 lost lives in road accident ROZANA SPOKESMAN
Updated Jan 16, 2021, 5:49 pm IST
A planned reunion in Goa ending on a tragic note.
Road accident
A planned reunion in Goa ending on a tragic note. All of them being girl students of 1989 batch from Saint Paul s School at Devangere, now in their mid-40s, constituted the group travelling in the ill-fated mini-bus that collided with a tipper-lorry at Itigatti village near the city on Friday, claiming their lives.
The former had planned a three-day sojourn to Goa and visit places of tourist attraction. Two of them had taken their daughters along. According to police, 14 had left for Davangere in the van in the morning.