7 passengers die as buses collide in Salem
SALEM: Seven people, including two women, died on the spot and 40 others sustained injuries when two buses collided with each other at Mamangam in Salem around 1am on Saturday.
The names and other details of the deceased people were not known, said the Karuppur police who registered a case.
They said a private bus was heading to Dharmapuri from Salem. The bus hit a goods carrier van that was parked on the roadside near Mamangam on the Salem-Bengaluru National Highway.
"One of the tyres of the goods carrier van was punctured, and the driver parked the vehicle on the roadside," a police officer said. The driver of the private bus did not notice the goods carrier van. The bus hit the van from behind. The driver lost control of the bus. The bus crossed the median and entered the other side of the road. The driver's attempt to stop the vehicle went in vain.
Meanwhile, an omnibus, heading to Kerala from Bengaluru, hit the Dharmapuri-bound bus. "The omnibus that was coming from the opposite direction hit the Dharmapuri-bound bus. After that, the omnibus bus fell on its side on the roadside," the officer said.
The deceased included passengers in both the buses. The injured were sent to Salem Government Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical College Hospital.
Salem district collector Rohini R Bhajibhakare, city commissioner of police K Shankar, district revenue officer R Sukumar and other officials visited the accident spot.
courtesy : timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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US VP JD Vance says Lebanon not part of ceasefire, calls it ‘misunderstanding’
Budapest/Washington: US Vice President J D Vance has said that Lebanon was never included in the ceasefire understanding with Iran, describing the confusion as a “legitimate misunderstanding”.
Speaking to reporters before departing from Hungary, Vance said, “I think the Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon and it just didn’t. We never made that promise.”
He stressed that the United States had not included Lebanon in the scope of the ceasefire at any stage.
His remarks come amid continued Israeli strikes in Lebanon, where more than 200 people were reported killed, even as ceasefire talks between Iran and the US move forward.
Vance said Israel had “offered … to check themselves a little bit in Lebanon because they want to make sure that our negotiation is successful”.
He warned that if Iran allows the situation in Lebanon to affect the negotiations, it could derail the talks.
“If Iran wants to let this negotiation fall apart in a conflict where they were getting hammered over Lebanon, which has nothing to do with them and which the United States never once said was part of the ceasefire, that’s ultimately their choice,” he said.
