Massive crowd joins funeral procession of slain bus owner Saifuddin in Malpe
Udupi: The body of Saif alias Saifuddin Athradi, a rowdy-sheeter and owner of the AKMS private bus service who was brutally murdered in broad daylight at Salmar near Malpe-Kodavoor on Saturday, was handed over to his family late Saturday night after a post-mortem examination at the mortuary of Manipal KMC Hospital.
On Sunday morning, a massive funeral procession was taken out from his residence in Manipal to the Athradi Mosque. Several buses owned by the deceased were part of the procession, with thousands of people joining to pay their respects.
At the Athradi Mosque, arrangements were made for the public to have a final glimpse of Saifuddin. His last rites will be performed later today with religious rituals, according to sources.
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Five railway staffers injured as van headed to Rajdhani Express fire site overturns in MP
Ratlam (MP) (PTI): Five railway staffers were injured, one of them critically, when their van carrying repair equipment to the site of a Rajdhani Express fire overturned in Madhya Pradesh's Ratlam district on Sunday, officials said.
The blaze erupted in an AC coach of the Delhi-bound Thiruvananthapuram-Hazrat Nizamuddin Rajdhani Express between Vikramgarh Alot and Lunirichha stations under the Kota division of the railways in Ratlam at 5.15 am.
It disrupted the movement of several trains on the Mumbai-Delhi route, as per the officials.
A van carrying necessary equipment to Alot overturned on the way when a cow suddenly strayed into the middle of the road, they said.
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Five railwaymen were injured, one of them critically, the officials said.
The incident took place when the van carrying essential equipment for overhead electric line repair, among other things, was on its way to Alot from Shyamnagar in Ratlam, West Central Railway's chief public relations officer Harshit Shrivastava told PTI.
The injured persons were rushed to the hospital and were subsequently referred to Kota in Rajasthan, officials said.
No casualties were reported in the train fire.
