Chemical thrown on people from a cab in Kolkata
Kolkata, May 7: Miscreants threw some unidentified liquid chemical on six people, most of them women, from a running taxi on Sunday night on a posh area in south Kolkata, eyewitnesses and police said on Monday.
The taxi has been identified from the CCTV footage from a nearby building.
"A case has been registered and the investigation is still going on. The liquid thrown was not acid and officially we cannot declare what it was. It was something like battery water," a Sub Inspector of Rabindra Sarobar Police Station told IANS.
One of the victims claimed that the chemical was either some acid used in cars or that used in toilets.
"Had there been personal enmity then someone would have been attacked, but in this case, the five to six people who were attacked don't even know each other," said an eye witness.
The owner of the car has been identified and interrogated by the police.
"I visited the police station where the case has been registered and spoke to the officials. They told me that the driver is absconding leaving behind the car.
"When I tried to locate him at his residence where he lived with his mother, I found the house locked and none of them was there," the owner said.
The victims had no inkling of the attack as the car was about to pass by.
"We didn't realise anything of this sort. Initially I thought it to be dirty water or something. As it started burning I had to rinse it with water. Later, I got to know that many others had been attacked," said a female victim.
"If something of this sort happens in such a posh area, then we won't be able to move out of the house freely. It is very disturbing," she added.
As per the eyewitnesses, there were around four men inside the moving taxi.
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UP: Misled by GPS navigation, car falls into river from partially constructed bridge, 3 dead
Bareilly (UP), Nov 24: Three people died when their car fell into the Ramganga river from a partially constructed bridge here on Sunday, police said, adding that they suspect the driver was misled by its navigation system into taking the unsafe route.
The accident occurred around 10 am on the Khalpur-Dataganj road when the victims were travelling from Bareilly to Dataganj in the Badaun district, they said.
"Earlier this year, floods had caused the front portion of the bridge to collapse into the river, but this change had not been updated in the system," Circle Officer Ashutosh Shivam said.
The driver was using a navigation system and did not realise that the bridge was unsafe, driving the car off the damaged section, the police said.
There were no safety barriers or warning signs on the approach to the damaged bridge, leading to the fatal accident, Shivam said.
Upon receiving information, police teams from Faridpur, Bareilly and Dataganj police station rushed to the spot. They recovered the vehicle and the bodies from the river, Shivam added.
The circle officer said that bodies had been sent for post-mortem. Further investigation into the matter is underway.
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