Couple get twins on same date that their 2 kids died

Couple get twins on same date that their 2 kids died

Umamaheswara.Rao@timesgroup.com

Visakhapatnam:20.09.2021

T Appala Raju and Bhagyalakshmi, residents of Vizag, had lost both their daughters in one of Andhra’s worst boat accidents in the Godavari on September 15, 2019. About 50 people had drowned in the accident, the two little girls aged 3 and 1 were among the victims.

Exactly two years after the accident, on September 15, 2021, Bhagyalakshmi gave birth to twins. As fate would have it, both are daughters. The couple says it is God’s blessing to have twins on the same day they lost their daughters. Tragedy had hit Appala Raju and his family when a doubledecker launch had capsized after it was caught in a whirlpool midstream.

T Appala Raju & Bhagyalakshmi with their twins in Vizag

‘Newborns even have same features as of deceased sisters’

The couple had cancelled their trip at the last minute after Appala Raju, 32, , an employee in a glass manufacturing company, complained of uneasiness. However, they sent their two daughters, Geetha Vaishnavi, 3, and Dhatri Ananya, 1, with relatives for pilgrimage to the Sri Rama temple at Bhadrachalam on the banks of the Godavari. In all, there were 11 members from four families related to Appala Raju. Of them, only one had survived. Even as the tragedy continued to haunt the couple, on September 15, exactly two years after the mishap, Bhagyalakshmi, 28, was blessed with the twins.

Bhagyalakshmi told STOI, “The newborns even have the same features as of their (deceased) sisters. Both babies are doing well,” said Bhagyalakshmi. TNN