7 passengers die as buses collide in Salem
SALEM: Seven people, including two women, died on the spot and 40 others sustained injuries when two buses collided with each other at Mamangam in Salem around 1am on Saturday.
The names and other details of the deceased people were not known, said the Karuppur police who registered a case.
They said a private bus was heading to Dharmapuri from Salem. The bus hit a goods carrier van that was parked on the roadside near Mamangam on the Salem-Bengaluru National Highway.
"One of the tyres of the goods carrier van was punctured, and the driver parked the vehicle on the roadside," a police officer said. The driver of the private bus did not notice the goods carrier van. The bus hit the van from behind. The driver lost control of the bus. The bus crossed the median and entered the other side of the road. The driver's attempt to stop the vehicle went in vain.
Meanwhile, an omnibus, heading to Kerala from Bengaluru, hit the Dharmapuri-bound bus. "The omnibus that was coming from the opposite direction hit the Dharmapuri-bound bus. After that, the omnibus bus fell on its side on the roadside," the officer said.
The deceased included passengers in both the buses. The injured were sent to Salem Government Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical College Hospital.
Salem district collector Rohini R Bhajibhakare, city commissioner of police K Shankar, district revenue officer R Sukumar and other officials visited the accident spot.
courtesy : timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Will of people supreme, says Mahua Moitra after BJP's landslide victory in Bengal
Kolkata (PTI): A day after the Trinamool Congress faced a drubbing by the BJP in the West Bengal assembly elections, TMC MP Mohua Moitra on Tuesday said her party respects the mandate as the will of the people is supreme.
She also said that the party will continue the fight for a “secular country”.
In a post on X, Moitra said, “The will of the people is supreme. If Bengal wanted BJP, then Bengal has got BJP. We respect that.”
The BJP on Monday scripted history by winning 206 seats to secure more than a two-thirds majority in the West Bengal assembly polls, ending the TMC’s 15-year rule.
"We fought the good fight against unimaginable odds on an uneven pitch and for that I am proud of my leader & my party," Moitra said.
She said the TMC will continue to stand and fight for a secular country where the constitution, and "not brute majoritarianism, is the last word”.
