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Boat tragedy victim's body is recovered
MANAMA
THE body of a Bahrain-based Indian businessman was found in a Kerala lake yesterday, two days after a boating accident in which three other people were also killed.
V P Raghavan, aged 42, had gone with five friends on a leisure trip to the Kumarakam backwaters, in Kottayam, at around 7pm on Saturday.
His wife and three children flew home from Bahrain on Sunday night, unaware of the tragedy.
Relatives did not want them upset until they were with family who could comfort them.
Mr Raghavan's Bahrain-based Saudi partner Ahmed Abdulaziz Al Isa, aged 50 and two other friends were also killed when they fell off the boat.
Mr Raghavan and Mr Al Isa ran the Al Zubara Hotel and a chain of apartments and restaurants in Bahrain.
They travelled to Kerala to attend the marriage of their group general manager C K Ranjith, which was due to take place yesterday.
Mr Ranjith and another friend who fell into the water swam to safety.
Mr Raghavan's body was found at around 8am yesterday.
He and Mr Al Isa travelled from Bahrain last Thursday.
The sight-seeing trip was arranged especially for Mr Al Isa, who was on his first visit to Kerala.
"There were 12 people on the boat and six people fell into the water when it took a sudden turn while they were sitting on top," said Mr Raghavan's cousin M Sathish, who also works for the group.
The bodies of Mr Al Isa and Mr Raghavan's friends Pradeep and Chandran, both from his native Badagara, were recovered the same night.
Mr Al Isa was an engineer with Saudi Aramco, in Saudi's Eastern province, but lived mostly in Bahrain and helped run the hotel, restaurant and apartments chain.
His wife travelled yesterday from Saudi Arabia to Kerala to take his body back to Saudi.
MANAMA
THE body of a Bahrain-based Indian businessman was found in a Kerala lake yesterday, two days after a boating accident in which three other people were also killed.
V P Raghavan, aged 42, had gone with five friends on a leisure trip to the Kumarakam backwaters, in Kottayam, at around 7pm on Saturday.
His wife and three children flew home from Bahrain on Sunday night, unaware of the tragedy.
Relatives did not want them upset until they were with family who could comfort them.
Mr Raghavan's Bahrain-based Saudi partner Ahmed Abdulaziz Al Isa, aged 50 and two other friends were also killed when they fell off the boat.
Mr Raghavan and Mr Al Isa ran the Al Zubara Hotel and a chain of apartments and restaurants in Bahrain.
They travelled to Kerala to attend the marriage of their group general manager C K Ranjith, which was due to take place yesterday.
Mr Ranjith and another friend who fell into the water swam to safety.
Mr Raghavan's body was found at around 8am yesterday.
He and Mr Al Isa travelled from Bahrain last Thursday.
The sight-seeing trip was arranged especially for Mr Al Isa, who was on his first visit to Kerala.
"There were 12 people on the boat and six people fell into the water when it took a sudden turn while they were sitting on top," said Mr Raghavan's cousin M Sathish, who also works for the group.
The bodies of Mr Al Isa and Mr Raghavan's friends Pradeep and Chandran, both from his native Badagara, were recovered the same night.
Mr Al Isa was an engineer with Saudi Aramco, in Saudi's Eastern province, but lived mostly in Bahrain and helped run the hotel, restaurant and apartments chain.
His wife travelled yesterday from Saudi Arabia to Kerala to take his body back to Saudi.