Eight Keralites among victims of quake

By Our Staff Reporter

KOTTAYAM. JAN. 27. A 64-year-old woman from Kottayam district and six of her family members besides an ASI of Ernakulam district attached to the Border Security Force are among the victims of the earthquake that shook northern States on the Republic Day, according to reports reaching here.

Elikutty of Nedumchirayil House, Chengalam, her daughter Jessy (34), Jessy's husband, Joy (38) their children, Johanna (10) and Jefrin (8), their cousins, Nikhitha and Pincy (both three-years- old) have been declared dead, according to reports reaching their relatives here.

Joy and his brother were running their own factory in Gujarat for the past 15 years and the family had come together to participate in a family function, relatives said. Joy had recently bought a flat on the ninth floor or a 10-storey building in Ahmedabad, which collapsed in the tremor.

Joy's family, which belonged to Kottayam, had migrated to Waynad years back. Their funeral will be held at their ancestral church at Cherunkal, relatives said.

K.P. Mathew, assistant sub-inspector in the 71 Battalion of the Border Security Force, was also killed in the quake, according to a PTI report. He hails from Iymuri in Kodanad, Ernakulam district.

Mathew was stationed at Kutch, one of the worst-affected areas of the earthquake.

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