Chennai: 18-year-old table tennis player Vishwa Deendayalan from Tamil Nadu died in a road accident while traveling in a taxi from Guwahati to Shillong on Sunday. Deen Dayalan was on his way to Shillong from Guwahati with three teammates for the 83rd Senior National Inter-State Table Tennis Championship which starts on Monday. Ramesh Santhosh Kumar, Abinash Prasannaji Sreenivasan, and Kishore Kumar were critically injured.
The Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI) said in a statement that the trailer, which was coming from the opposite direction, collided with a taxi in Shangbangla shortly after the Umali check post and fell into a ravine. The taxi driver died on the spot.
Vishwa, a promising player with several national ranking titles and international medals, was scheduled to represent India at the WTT Youth Championships in Linz, Austria from April 27.
Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma offered condolences on his death.
