Mangalore: Panambur Bravehearts Save Two from Jaws of Death
Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (BG)
Mangalore, Jul 15: The lifeguards at Panambur beach had a busy time on Saturday July 14. Their heroism came to the fore when they rescued not only one, but two young people from the jaws of the death.
Of the two, one of them had come to the beach all the way from Bangalore to end her life.
Shwetha (21), a girl who was born and brought up in Bangalore had been staying with her uncle in Kollegal. She has been working for him in his textile store for the past three years, and it is said that she was tired of the strict control he exercised on her, restricting her from talking to the opposite sex or even having friends, and rebuking her for not doing her work properly.
Depressed at this, the girl reportedly took a bus from Bangalore on Friday night, and on Saturday morning, made her way straight to Panambur by auto at 6.30 am.
At the beach, she sat quietly for some minutes all alone, and then broke into a run towards the roaring waters. Luckily, a lifeguard spotted her at the right time and rushed to her rescue just as she was about to jump in.
She was later taken to the Panambur police station, where the policemen counselled her and she was handed over to her another uncle who was kind to her.
Moreover, being a Bangalorean without much knowledge of Mangalore, she was lucky that the auto driver dropped her at the right beach - Panambur. If he had taken her to any other beach, a precious life may have been lost.
In the second incident, Saitej, a teenage boy of 13 years from Whitefield in Bangalore, was pulled in by the waves. He had come with a big group, but they failed to notice that he had gone to far into the sea. However, the lifeguards spotted him and saved him on time.
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