On the morning of March 12, 1995, passengers had boarded a bus of the J Jayalalitha Transport Corporation (JJTC) from Broadway in Madras (as Chennai was known then). The bus was bound for Bangalore (now Bengaluru). Over an hour into its journey, the bus was proceeding closer to Greenland Hotel, a highway eatery in Sunguvarchathram, about 55 kms from Madras, where long distance buses would halt for refreshment those days.
Elsewhere, at K Podavur Village in neighbouring Kancheepuram district, many men, women and children, boarded a tractor-trailer. They were en route to Palla Mulachur to attend the betrothal of a young woman, Kokila.
The people on both vehicles were unaware that their fates would meet shortly that day at Senthamanga
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