Mangaluru Police to hold special vehicle checking drive for five days: Commissioner Shashi Kumar
Mangaluru: The Commissioner of Police Shashi Kumar said that a special vehicle screening would be implemented in the jurisdiction of the Mangaluru City Police Commissionerate for 5 days from Monday until October 2, Saturday.
Under the special inspection, the vehicles will be checked to see if the windows of the vehicles have been tinted black (despite the restriction), whether the authorized number plate (Licence number) is in use, whether the riders and passengers are wearing helmets during rides, whether the insurance has been renewed, if previous traffic violation, related cases have been sorted out and whether the vehicles have undergone the mandated emission test.
“Each day, vehicular inspections of a particular nature will be conducted in a centralized manner and during the end of each day, inspection reports of that day must be routinely submitted to the office of the Commissionerate before 7 pm”, Commissioner Shashikumar notified.
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Bridge portion collapses on Jammu outskirts; 3-4 labourers feared trapped, 1 rescued
Jammu (PTI): A portion of a small bridge collapsed in the Bantalab area on the outskirts of Jammu city on Friday, trapping at least three to four labourers under the debris, while one injured worker was rescued, official sources said.
Authorities have closed the road link following the collapse of the portion of the bridge.
The incident occurred when labourers were carrying out repair work on a retaining wall near the bridge that was damaged in last year's flash floods, the sources said.
According to the sources, a section of the bridge suddenly gave way, burying workers engaged at the site under the rubble.
Police, Army and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) teams launched rescue operations to extricate those buried under the debris. They pulled out one injured labourer and shifted him to a hospital, the sources said.
Family members of the labourers present at the site said around six workers engaged at the site at the time of the incident came under the debris when the structure collapsed. The family members said while two of the labourers managed to escape, four got trapped.
The sources said those trapped included the husband of a woman labourer, a mason, an unmarried labourer and a relative of the contractor.
There was no official confirmation on the exact number of persons trapped under the debris till the filing of this report.
The rescue operations are ongoing.
