Mysuru: In a tragic incident a 24-year-old youth was killed in a road accident and his cousin sister died of shock
later at Bannikuppe in Hunsur Taluk in the district on Tuesday January 11.
Keerthiraj was driving his car towards Mysuru, when two motorbike riders suddenly stopped near Somanahalli gate on NH- 275 Mysuru -Bantwala road, it is said. To avoid hitting the two-wheeler, Keerthiraj tried his best, but hit a two-wheeler before the car overturned. Both Keerthiraj and bike rider Ravikumar sustained injuries in the
incident. While Ravikumar died at a private hospital in Mysuru, Keerthiraj succumbed at Hunsur Taluk Hospital.
On Tuesday Keerthiraj’s cousin sister Rashmi (21) who was studying MCom in Mysuru went to Hunsur to take part in the final rites. However she collapsed at the time and was hospitalised, only to breathe her last
at the hospital, later.
