Puducherry: A school boy tragically died after boarding a bus in Puducherry's Bhumiyanpet. The enraged relatives and public blocked the road. Bus windows were smashed.

Panneergaian hails from 1st Cross Street, Puducherry Redyarpalayam, Bhavanar Nagar. He has a box store in the area. His son Kirshwant (9). He was studying 4th standard in a private school in Moolakulam.

In this case, Panneergaian was taking his son to school on a moped today. While approaching a private hotel on the Puducherry-Villupuram road in Bhumiyanpet, a man came across on a motorbike. Panneergaiyan suddenly braked to avoid hitting him.

As a result, the mobile phone tripped and overturned. At that time, a speeding bus behind and the bike of a person who came across rammed Panneerkaiyan's moped. The father and son fell on the right side of the road. In this, the rear wheel of the bus fell on the boy Kirshwant, his head was crushed and his brain was shattered and he died miserably on the spot. Panneergaian survived with minor injuries.

Father Panneergaiyan burst into tears as he saw his son dying before his eyes. The bus driver who caused the accident ran away from the bus and all the passengers got down. The public, students and relatives of Panneergaian who came to know about the accident gathered there and broke the windows of the bus.

Traffic on the Puducherry-Villupuram National Highway was affected due to this. Vehicles lined up on both sides of the road. After getting information about this, the Northern Transport Police reached the spot and seized the boy's body and sent it to Kathirgamam Government Medical College Hospital for post-mortem.

And they fixed the traffic. Later, a case has been registered and an investigation is being conducted regarding the accident. Meanwhile, more than 100 relatives of the school boy who died in the accident and members of the public from the area suddenly stopped the ambulance with the boy's body across the Villupuram road and started a road blockade.

At that time, the road from Indira Gandhi statue to Arumbarthapuram should be widened. Action should be taken against speeding private buses. They raised slogans insisting that road encroachments should be removed. Traffic in the area was severely affected due to this. Rediyarpalayam police and traffic police rushed to the spot and negotiated. When there was no agreement in the negotiations, they walked from there and came to Indira Gandhi Square.

They blocked the square so that no vehicles could pass there. Due to this, the vehicles were lined up one after the other all day long. Some people smashed the side glass of the Tamil Nadu government bus that was passing by. The driver sustained minor injuries on his hand.

Puducherry Public Works Minister Lakshminarayanan, MLA Sivakankaran and police officials reached the spot and held talks with the picketing people. At that time, the public asked the minister to widen the road. Hearing this, the minister promised to take action soon. The people's strike was abandoned. After that the traffic gradually smoothed out.