After completing the Kanyakumari-Kashmir leg on the skating board, he had planned next trips to Bhutan, Nepal and Cambodia.
A Kerala youth’s journey on a skateboard from Kanyakumari to Kashmir came to a tragic end when he was killed in a road accident in Haryana’s Panchkula on Tuesday. A speeding truck hit Anas Hajas, 31, 7:30 am while he was on way from Pinjore in Panchkula to Nalagarh in Himachal Pradesh.
Investigation officer Ram Karan of Pinjore police station said: “He was on his skateboard when a truck hit him from the back and fled the spot. Some locals, however, noted the vehicle’s registration number and informed the police. Hajas was taken to the neighbouring Kalka Government Hospital where doctors declared him brought dead.”
A native of Venjaramoodu in Thiruvananthapuram, Hajas, had started on the 3511-km-long expedition on May 29.
In a video posted in a local village group’s social media account on July 30, Hajas, said he was only 600 kilometers away from Kashmir. “It may take another 15 days to reach Kashmir. These days, I am skating only 40 to 50 km a day. So far, everything has been safe. Thanks everyone,’’ he said in the video posted from the Haryana-Punjab border.
