A woman who travelled from London to Bangalore in an attempt to cure her depression has been left missing part of her face after being run over by a tractor.
Sani Krishna had made the journey after spening a year in the UK’s capital with her brother Arjun and ex-boyfriend.
But she began struggling with her mental health, and on her GP’s advice she travelled home to visit her parents.
While she was visiting, she rode on the back of a Rapido motorcycle, which is a taxi service when the driver crashed into the tractor in front of them.
The driver was thrown to the side, but Sani, 35, was thrown beneath the tractor’s wheels which ran her over.
She was taken to Manipal Hospital after suffering such severe injuries she had to have her spleen removed.
Sani remains in hospital on a ventilator and is unable to talk or eat, and is now missing a lip and some of the flesh on her face.
Arjun told Metro: ‘She used all of her savings to fund her trip. She is such an energetic and happy woman, but she started to struggle while living in London.
‘So she went back to visit our parents, and just a few days later, the crash happened.’
Arjun is desperately trying to raise money for medical treatment after the family used part of their own savings to fund Sani’s trip back home.
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He said: ‘My sister is beautiful, we are very close. I look up to her.
‘She has suffered such severe injuries because the tractor wheels went right over her body.
‘But I have faith she will get better. I have so many people I have never heard of reach out and say her wonderful she is.’
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