Unaware of son's death, visually challenged parents stay with body in house for four days
Hyderabad: A visually challenged elderly couple who were found living with the body of their 30-year-old son, unaware that he died four days ago, were rescued from their house here, police said on Tuesday.
With a foul smell emanating from the house on Monday, some neighbours informed the police, who reached the place and found the body of a man with the elderly couple lying in a semi-conscious state.
The man was found dead in the house and he is suspected to have died in his sleep about four-five days ago, Nagole Police Station SHO A Surya Nayak said based on preliminary investigation.
The visually challenged parents, both aged over 60, did not know that their younger son had died and they tried calling him up for food and water but did not get any response, the official said. With their feeble voice, it seemed their neighbours also could not hear them, he said.
They were offered food and water by the police.
After getting information from the couple about their elder son, who stays in another locality of the city, police informed him.
The man's body was shifted to a state-run hospital for post-mortem. A case was registered.
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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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