Music composer and singer Shankar Mahadevan has mourned the death of popular Kerala musician and violinist Balabhaskar and has called it a sad day for music. "Very sad. Very unfair! Just not able to come to terms with it. Our dearest Bala Bhaskar has left us. Deeply saddened. A very sad day for music. Our prayers are with the family," Mahadevan tweeted on Tuesday.

Very sad. Very unfair! Just not able to come to terms with it. Our dearest #Balabhaskar has left us ... deeply saddened.. a very sad day for music ... our prayers are with the family u00f0u009fu0099u008fu00f0u009fu008fu00bbu00f0u009fu0099u008fu00f0u009fu008fu00bbu00f0u009fu0099u008fu00f0u009fu008fu00bb

— Shankar Mahadevan (@Shankar_Live) October 2, 2018

Balabhaskar, who was seriously injured along with his wife in a road accident last week in Thiruvananthapuram, died in the early hours of Tuesday, informed sources said. He died at 12.55 a.m., according to sources in the hospital in which he was admitted.