Firecracker tragedy: 26 people undergoing treatment in Mangaluru
Mangaluru (Karnataka), Oct 29: Twenty-six people who suffered burn injuries at the firecracker incident at Nileshwararm in Kerala are hospitalised here.
According to the hospital authorities, all 26 of them are undergoing treatment as inpatients and three of them are in Burn Intensive Care Units (BICU). All of them are from Kasargod and Kannur districts of Kerala state.
Three of them are children below seven years who are admitted to Paediatric ICUs and three of them have sustained grievous burn injuries.
Eight patients belong to the senior 40-70 years bracket and the oldest of them is Bharathan of Kannur district who is 76-years-old and is stated to be in critical condition.
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His family members who were in the hospital told PTI that Bharathan was an active member of the community and had been a regular visitor of the temple festival every year. He has sustained severe burn injuries on hands, shoulders and face the doctors have said that the treatment is going to be long drawn.
Saayan Dev (4) of Kannur district is the youngest among the victims. He is undergoing treatment for severe burn injuries in the PICU is also stated to be in critical condition.
This was the first temple outing for Saayan, his wailing mother who has also sustained minor burn injuries said.
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Pawan Khera denied anticipatory bail in passport case: Cong stands up for senior member
New Delhi: The Congress party has stood by Pawan Khera, the Chairman of the party’s Media and Publicity Department, expressing confidence that regardless of hurdles like politics of threat and intimidation, justice would emerge victorious.
Khera was denied anticipatory bail by the Gauhati High Court on Friday in the case filed against him by Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma's wife Riniki Bhuyan Sarma for alleging that she possessed not only multiple passports but also undisclosed properties abroad.
Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has said in a post in Hindi on his ‘X’ account, “The entire Indian National Congress stands in solidarity with Pawan Khera, the Chairman of its Media and Publicity Department. The process to challenge the Gauhati High Court’s decision in the Supreme Court is underway.” In the post, which he put up on Friday, Ramesh has added, “We are confident that justice will prevail over the politics of threats, intimidation, and harassment.”
Bhuyan Sarma has lodged also an FIR seeking legal action against Pawan Khera for his allegations that she possesses passports of three countries and owns a company in the US, which had invested Rs. 50,000 crores. She has filed criminal cases against the Congress leader at the Guwahati Crime Branch Police Station under various sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
