Mangaluru: A 25-year-old youth killed and three others injured in a horrible road accident near Adyar Kannur Masjid on the outskirts of the city on Tuesday night.

 The deceased has been identified as Mohammad Farooq, a resident of Adyar. Hanif, Junaid, Sarfraz were injured and admitted to a private hospital for treatment.

 The accident occurred when a speeding car rammed into another vehicle that was parked near the masjid. The sad point is that Farooq, who was on a bike, came and sat in the car to take shelter from the rain. But he was unaware that his death was waiting for him there.

The intensity of the accident was such that the car hit a rickshaw that was parked inside the masjid.

The assistant police commissioner of Mangaluru (Traffic) visited the spot and carried out the investigation.

 

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Mumbai (PTI): A 75-year-old man died after some portion of a slab in a two-storey residential structure collapsed on him in Mumbai's Bhandup area on Saturday morning, officials said.

The incident occurred at Tulshipada in Patkar Compound of Bhandup West around 9.45 am, they said.

"The victim, identified as Susai Daevdas Kaunder, was injured when some part of the slab on the upper floor of a two-storey structure fell on him," a civic official said.

He was immediately taken to nearby Navkaar Hospital, where he was declared dead, the official said.