Lok Sabha Election: DK district records 77.25 per cent voting
Mangaluru: Excluding some incidents of faulty EVMs, heated arguments, and printer problem in VV Pats, the Lok Sabha election in the D.K district went peacefully and 77.25 percentage of voting has been recorded here.
DK district was considered as the highest polling district in Karnataka with 74.46 percentage polling in 2014 Lok Sabha elections. This time, it has broken its own record by getting 76.67 voter turnout.
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Four of family killed as car jumps divider on highway in Gujarat's Panchmahal
Godhra (Gujarat) (PTI): Four members of a family were killed, and one sustained grievous injuries after their speeding car jumped a divider on the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway corridor in Gujarat's Panchmahal district on Monday, police said.
The car driver lost control of the wheels near Kalol. As a result, the four-wheeler jumped the divider and veered off to the other side of the highway, an official from Kalol police station said.
Soon after the accident, some locals rushed to the scene and also alerted the police. Efforts were made to pull out the people trapped in the car.
Four persons died on the spot, while one suffered injuries, the official said.
The deceased were members of a family from Vadodara and were returning from Rajasthan when the tragedy struck, the official said.
They have been identified as Sajid Iqbal Khinji (55), Ilyas Iqbal Khinji (50), Ishaq Iqbal Khinji (48) and Rehan Azgar Khinji (35).
