Mangaluru: COVID reports of couple who committed suicide fearing COVID, return negative
Mangaluru: COVID reports of the couple who committed suicide on Monday night fearing they had contracted COVID-19 have returned negative. Both the husband and wife have tested negative for the virus, Mangaluru DCP Hariram Shankar informed.
The deceased have been identified as Ramesh and Guna R Suvarna, residents of an apartment in the city.
READ: Mangaluru: Couple end lives fearing Covid infection
On Monday night, the couple sent a voice message to City Police Commissioner N Shashi Kumar that they are ending their lives as they cannot bear the anxiety created by news items about the disease in the media. They were later found hanging in their apartment.
The commissioner responded immediately asking them not to take any extreme step hastily. He also requested through media groups to trace the couple. However, by the time police reached the apartment, both of them had hanged themselves
On Tuesday afternoon their COVID test report returned negative, police informed.
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Two people killed as poultry vehicle rams into parked truck in Belagavi
Belagavi (Karnataka) (PTI): Two people were killed, and another was severely injured after a goods vehicle transporting poultry birds allegedly rammed into a stationary truck on a national highway in Belagavi in the early hours of Tuesday, police said.
The deceased have been identified as Wasim (28) and Mubarak (22), both natives of Shivamogga district, they said.
The driver of the vehicle, Basavaraj Eerappa Hanchinamani (37), suffered critical injuries and has been admitted to a hospital, police said.
According to police, the accident occurred when the driver reportedly lost control of the vehicle, allegedly due to drowsiness, and crashed into a truck parked along the highway.
The goods vehicle was en route from Kolhapur to Sorab in Shivamogga district, carrying poultry. Several chickens were also killed in the impact, a senior police officer said.
Police personnel from the Hirebagewadi Police Station visited the spot and conducted an inspection.
Injured people and the bodies of the deceased were shifted to a hospital, police added.
