Ambulance topples as car hits it near waterlogged road in Kasaragod
patient dies in hospital, seven injured
Kasaragod: A patient who was being taken to hospital in an ambulance sustained serious injuries following a collision between a car and the ambulance near Uppala Gate on Tuesday evening and died in hospital.
The accident victim is identified as Shaheena (48). She was rushed to a hospital in Mangaluru immediately, but could not be saved as she failed to respond to the treatment.
Seven other people, including Shaheena's daughter Riya Fathima (9), sister Shajeena (45) and relative Asif (22), as well as the ambulance driver Akram (38), are reported to have been injured in the accident.
The accident is said to have occurred due to waterlogging of the road following heavy rain in the area. The ambulance was taking Shaheena from a hospital in Kannur of the district to Mangaluru for further treatment when the driver, finding the road to be inundated, applied the brakes suddenly. A car that was behind ambulance is learned to have collided with the ambulance that halted unexpected. Due to the force of the collision, however, the ambulance driver reportedly lost control and the vehicle overturned on the road.
The collision also resulted in a serial accident as five vehicles that were behind the car crashed into the vehicles ahead of them.
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Two children die due to fire at shed in Bengaluru
Bengaluru (PTI): Two children died as a fire broke out at a makeshift shed at Kothanur in the north eastern part of Bengaluru, police said.
According to police, the incident happened on Monday as the siblings were playing at the shed.
The deceased are a girl and a boy of three and five years of age respectively. Their parents -- daily wage workers from Raichur district -- had gone out to work and the children were left behind with their grandmother as usual, police said.
The grandmother had reportedly stepped out to use the toilet when the fire broke, they said, adding that efforts by neighbours and others to save the children were in vain.
The children suffered from asphyxiation due to heavy smoke and burn injuries, police said.
While the boy died on the spot, the girl succumbed on the way to hospital, they said.
Police said the cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained. The burning of clothes inside the shed had resulted in dense smoke. Investigation will be conducted, they added.
