Spend minimum for festival, help flood victims: Khazi Bekal Ustad
Mangaluru, August 19: “It is our responsibility to help those who are distress and lost their loved ones and homes in the natural disaster in Kerala and Kodagu. So, everyone should come forward to help them by spending minimum for festival”, appealed Udupi, Chikmagaluru and Hassan districts Composite Khazi Maulana PM Ibrahim Musliyar Bekal.
Allah would really love those who help others who are in distress. Minimise the purchase and expenses in the name of festival as much as possible and help the victims maximum, he said.
He also appealed to the people to pray for the flood victims on the eve and occasion of Eid-al-Adha.
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Five crushed to death after truck ploughs into tent in Kerala
Thrissur (Kerala) (PTI): At least five people, including two children, were killed and as many persons injured when a truck ploughed into the roadside tent where they were sleeping in this central Kerala district early on Tuesday, police said.
The victims, nomads living in tents set up along the highway, were struck by the truck on a national highway in Nattika, under the Valapad police station limits, at 4.30 am, they said.
The injured have been admitted to Thrissur Government Medical College Hospital, with the condition of two individuals reported as serious, police said.
Among the deceased are two children, aged one-and-a-half and four years. Two women were also killed.
The driver and cleaner of the vehicle have been taken into custody, police added.
