2 drivers killed in freak accident on Airport road in Bengaluru
Bengaluru (PTI): Drivers of a truck and a car were killed in a freak accident on Airport road here, police said on Tuesday.
The concrete mixer truck hit the car -- a sports utility vehicle (SUV) -- following which the drivers of the two vehicles got down and engaged in a verbal altercation over the minor mishap on Monday night.
In the meantime, a Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) bus heading towards the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA)
from Rajarajeshwari Nagar rammed into the stationary truck on the right side of a flyover, and ran over the two drivers.
The truck driver Kuldip Kumar (42) died on the spot while the car driver Jagadish (40) succumbed to injuries at a hospital, a senior police officer said.
A case has been registered at Yelahanka traffic police station and further investigation is underway, he said.
In a statement, the BMTC said as the bus was approaching the GKVK (Gandhi Krishi Vigyana Kendra) flyover on the airport road, it encountered the previously crashed vehicles parked "dangerously and in an unscientific manner", with their drivers engaged in a verbal altercation.
"At this moment, the Volvo bus driver, unable to react in time due to low visibility in the dark in the downhill road of the flyover, could not avoid the collision, resulting in a chain accident," it said.
The bus driver, Puttaswamy sustained minor injuries, and the only passenger travelling in the bus escaped unhurt, the BMTC said.
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Rajasthan candidate arrested day after slapped SDM
Jaipur (PTI): Independent MLA candidate from Rajasthan’s Tonk district Naresh Meena was arrested on Thursday, a day after he slapped a sub-divisional magistrate during polling in full view of camera crews.Meena, a Congress rebel contesting as an Independent, caught SDM Malpura, Amit Chaudhary, by his collar and slapped him, an official said.
Chaudhary was trying to get more people to vote in the bypolls held on Wednesday. Locals had boycotted polling over a demand to include Samravta village in Uniara sub-division instead of in Deoli. Meena was supporting the villagers.
The incident led to tension in the area with vehicles being torched, police being pelted with stones and 60 people arrested.
About 60 two-wheelers and 18 four-wheelers were torched in the violence that erupted outside the polling booth. Police personnel tried to remove Meena and his supporters who sat on a dharna in Samravta village in the Deoli-Uniara assembly constituency.
The Rajasthan Administrative Services (RAS) Association called for a pen-down strike and government work was affected for some time in the morning.
Four cases were registered against Meena, including for disrupting public work and damaging public property.
