Bhatkal: Tree branch pierces Volvo bus; Conductor dies
Bhatkal: A KSRTC Volvo bus conductor was killed when a branch of a tree pierced the vehicle in Bhatkal on Thursday night.
The deceased has been identified as Panchayya Mathapati (35) from Belagavi.
The bus between Mangaluru-Bhatkal reached Bhatkal at around 8: 55 pm on Thursday. Then, the bus driver and conductor Panchayya had dinner after dropping passengers. The incident occurred at around 9: 30 pm when the bus was going to the KSRTC bus depot on Sagar Road.
When the bus driver took the bus off the road to avoid collision with an autorickshaw that was moving in opposite direction, a large branch of a tree pierced the bus and hit Panchayya. Consequently, he succumbed to the injuries on the spot.
Bhatkal police have registered a case regarding this.
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95-year-old woman's body found in underground tank in Vadodara
Vadodara: The body of a 95-year-old woman, Ujam Parmar, was discovered in the underground water tank of her residence in the Tarsali area on Wednesday morning, nearly 10 days after she had gone missing.
Police believe Parmar accidentally fell into the tank on December 21 and drowned. Her family had filed a missing person's complaint on December 22 but had no leads despite extensive inquiries and CCTV footage reviews.
The tragic discovery was made after the family noticed a foul smell in their tap water and called for the tank to be cleaned. Inspector Vivek Patel of the special operations group confirmed that the postmortem report indicated drowning as the cause of death, ruling out any foul play.
Parmar, a resident of Navjivan Society, lived with her daughter, a government school teacher. Her two sons and daughter had been actively searching for her since her disappearance.
