Karnataka Congress MLA Siddu B Nyamagouda Dies in Road Accident
Bagalkot, May 28: Senior Congress legislator Siddu B Nyamagouda from Karnataka's Bagalkot district died in a road accident near here on Monday, police said. He was 71 and leaves behind his widow, two sons and three daughters.
"The accident occurred near Tulasigeri village when the car in which Nyamagouda was travelling crashed into a divider after the driver lost control while trying to avoid a head-on collision with a truck," Tulasigeri police inspector M.B. Biradar told IANS. Bagalkot is 530 km from state capital Bengaluru and 20 km from Tulasigeri.
Four persons, including the driver, were injured. They have been admitted to a hospital here.
"The legislator was travelling to Jamkhandi via Bagalkot from Panaji in Goa upon his return from Delhi on Sunday night," Biradar said.
Nyamagouda was re-elected to the state Assembly in the May 12 election, defeating BJP's Kulkarni Shrikant Subrao by 2,795 votes. The veteran party leader was a Union Minister in the P.V. Narasimha Rao cabinet in 1990-91.
Chief Minister.D. Kumaraswamy and many Congress leaders mourned his untimely death.
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UP: Misled by GPS navigation, car falls into river from partially constructed bridge, 3 dead
Bareilly (UP), Nov 24: Three people died when their car fell into the Ramganga river from a partially constructed bridge here on Sunday, police said, adding that they suspect the driver was misled by its navigation system into taking the unsafe route.
The accident occurred around 10 am on the Khalpur-Dataganj road when the victims were travelling from Bareilly to Dataganj in the Badaun district, they said.
"Earlier this year, floods had caused the front portion of the bridge to collapse into the river, but this change had not been updated in the system," Circle Officer Ashutosh Shivam said.
The driver was using a navigation system and did not realise that the bridge was unsafe, driving the car off the damaged section, the police said.
There were no safety barriers or warning signs on the approach to the damaged bridge, leading to the fatal accident, Shivam said.
Upon receiving information, police teams from Faridpur, Bareilly and Dataganj police station rushed to the spot. They recovered the vehicle and the bodies from the river, Shivam added.
The circle officer said that bodies had been sent for post-mortem. Further investigation into the matter is underway.
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