It is a shocking black Friday of mishap for Kerala with death toll of 104 persons near Sabarimala Friday night. The people killed were devotees of Lord Ayyappa. They were returning after the Makaravilakku festival in Sabarimala . This is a major tragedy in Kerala after a total of 107 passengers of Bangalore-Thiruvananthapuram Island Express met with a watery grave as the train fell off Perumon bridge across the Ashatamudi lake in Kollam district on July 8, 1988.
The huge rush to Sabarimala and the bungling roads are the main reason for the accident. All precautions and care taken by the government till date have gone futile with this major accident.
More scientific planning is needed for crowd management and road traffic to make Sabarimala pilgrimage season incident-free.
K A Solaman
The New Indian Express dated 17 Jan 2011
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