e-way mishap: Village mourns its ‘shining star’

Nagpur, March 19

Their “shining star” had slipped away to the skies above, a Gaigaon resident said on Monday, echoing grief of Dr Harshad Wankhede’s family and others in the village as they prepared for the last rites of the AIIMS doctor killed in an accident near Mathura.

That the young doctor was killed while on his way to celebrate his 30th birthday deepened the gloom in the small village of Gaigaon in Maharashtra’s Akola district.

The senior resident doctor at Delhi’s premier AIIMS, who leaves behind his parents and a sister, was the pride of Gaigaon and its 5,000 residents. Joining the Wankhede family in mourning the death of the young man, who was born on March 17, 1988, were other villagers in Gaigaon.

Wankhede began schooling at Gaigaon, about 250 km from here, and studied till Class 7 at the zila parishad school. He was the first from the village to complete MBBS course. — PTI