VANDIPERIYAR: An Ayyappa devotee who went on a pilgrimage to Sabarimala through the Satram-Pullumedu Kananapatha collapsed and died. Dinesh (55) of Manikoth house, Kannur Thalassery is the one who died. Dinesan is the third Ayyappa devotee to die on Kananapatha after the start of this season.

Dinesan was part of a seven-member group that left Satram. Dinesan passed out when he reached Sitakulam near Pullumedu. The RRT team of the forest department reached the spot and brought him to the temporary center of the health department at Pullumedu in a vehicle, but he had died by then. The body was brought to Vandiperiyar primary health center in an ambulance that came from Vandiperiyar. Wife: Shijula. Children: Krishnaendu and Yadu Krishna.