Mangaluru Morgansgate shootout: Victim declared brain dead, family donates his organs
Father who shot him, suffers heart attack
Mangaluru: The 16-year-old boy who was accidentally shot by his father on Tuesday evening near Morgansgate in the city, was on Wednesday declared brain-dead at the hospital.
The victim boy, identified as Sudhindra Prabhu had sustained a critical head injury by the gunshot wound. The family, after he was declared brain dead, has decided to donate his organs.
The father of the boy, Rajesh Prabhu suffered cardiac arrest after his son was declared brain dead. Rajesh is being treated at a hospital in the city.
Rajesh had accidentally shot Sudhindra when Rajesh’s wife got into an argument with their cleaner and driver. Rajesh and Sudhindra also engaged in the argument with their staff. Sudhindra reportedly got into a physical scuffle with the cleaner and Rajesh Prabhu fired two rounds from his pistol which accidentally hit Sudhindra.
A case in this regard has been registered in this regard at the local police station.
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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.
