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Among the 25 dead in the bus fire on Samruddhi highway were three members of two families each. The private bus they were traveling in caught fire after it crashed into a pole near Buldana in Maharashtra early Saturday.
Kailash Gangawane (52), teacher at Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru School in Nirgudsar village in Ambegaon Taluka in Pune Province; His wife, Kanchan, 41, and their daughter, Rutuja, 21, a medical graduate, died in the bus accident and were together “until the last moment,” a relative said.
Kailash’s cousin Rupesh Gangwani said, “One of our relatives, who is in the police, found the three dead bodies in a tight embrace…”.
Praneet Wankar, a resident of Jarvari Housing Co-operative Society in Pimple Sodagar area of Pune, lost his mother Shobha, 58, wife Rushali, 38, and two-year-old daughter Ovi in an accident on Saturday. “Never in my worst nightmare would I have imagined seeing them in such a terrible state. They were charred beyond recognition. I lost everyone… I couldn’t survive like this,” Wanker said.
While the Gangawans were returning from Nagpur where they had gone two days earlier to drop off their son Aditya for college, Praneet had taken his family to Chandrapur about 15 days ago to attend a relative’s wedding. “While Praneet returned, his mother, wife and daughter stayed behind,” said Nana Kate, a former co-owner of Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation in Poona and a close friend of the Wankers.
Rupesh Gangawan said, “On their return trip, Kailash’s nephew texted him on his mobile that Kailash saw her but she didn’t reply. However, earlier the nephew spoke to Kailash three to four times and said they would reach Pune by Sunday morning.” .
Nana Kit said he learned about the incident around 11 am and called Praneet immediately. He said he was just a few minutes away from the accident site. Later, when I inquired about his family, he broke down and said he had lost everything, adding that Praneet had lost his father during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Gaurav Nagri, the former president of the Jarvari housing association and a close friend of Praneet, said that Praneet’s wife was from Yvatvmal and his mother was from Warda. “The bus started from Nagpur. Pranit’s wife and child got on the bus in Yvatvmal and his mother got in Warda. There was another relative, who also joined them… Just before the bus entered Samruddhi Mahamarg, it stopped at a hotel where the passengers had dinner,” said Nagri.
According to Nagre, Pranit apparently left around 5.30am after he received a call from the travel company, whose bus his family was traveling on. “When I first spoke to Pranet, he said he had not yet arrived at the scene and was going to the hospital to see his family. Later, when I called, one of his friends present there told me they were trying to identify the bodies… One of the bodies was of a mother holding a baby in her arms. Pranet insists that the body was his wife and child. There were two other children, the friend said, who were not clinging to any other passenger.”
Rupesh said that the Gangwans were originally from Sherur taluka. “But after Kailash got a job in a school in Ambegaon, they moved here,” he said.
Describing Kailash as a “polite person with a humane approach”, Rupesh said, “He mingled easily with everyone and advised people on how to lead a decent life. He went out of his way for those who approached him for help.”
By the way, both families recently celebrated the birthday of their youngest member. At Ambegaon, the Gangawanes celebrate Aditya’s birthday. “The whole family and some relatives gathered together to celebrate,” said Roopesh.
Gaurav Nagri said that the Wankar family and their neighbors celebrated Ovi’s second birthday two months ago on May 12. “There was a lot of celebration. Baby Ovi was loved by everyone in the neighborhood.
Residents of the Garvari Residential Association mourned the deaths of three members of the Wankar family at a condolence meeting Saturday night. Negri said: “We are all in a state of shock since the morning..”
Meanwhile, Sunday Express visited major hubs of private travel companies in Pune, including Sangamwadi where buses from Nagpur stop, and found that Vidarbha Travels, which operated the bus involved in the incident, had no office there.
An employee of Noor Travels in Kasaba Beth district said, “We have a partnership with Vidarbha Travels and they don’t have an office in Pune. Their bus bookings from Pune are taken online… We didn’t take any booking from Pune for the bus.” Another employee said that Vidarbha Travels has offices in Nagpur and Yavatmal districts, but not in Pune.
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