Dharwad: SUV with Haj pilgrims on the way to airport crashes into tree; seven killed
Pune, Jul 31: Seven members of a family, including three children, were killed and another one was injured early on Wednesday when the SUV they were travelling in crashed into a roadside tree near Satara on Mumbai- Bengaluru highway in Maharashtra, police said.
A senior police official from Borgaon police station said the family, hailing from Dharwad in Karnataka, was on its way to Mumbai airport to drop their two of their elderly, who were going for the Haj pilgrimage.
"The accident occurred close to Kashil village near Satara around 12.45 am on Wednesday. All the seven deceased were from one family," he said.
The deceased were identified as Nizamuddin Abdulnabi Saudagar (69), Safura Nizamuddin Saudagar (58), Mansuf Nizamuddin Saudagar (40), Nafisa Mansuf Saudagar (35), Aksa Mansuf Saudagar (4), Ahmedraza Mansuf Saudagar (2) and Tayabba Mansuf Saudagar (6).
"The family was on its way to Mumbai airport, from where Nizamuddin Saudagar and his wife Safura were supposed to go for the Haj pilgrimage," the officer said.
Prima facie, the accident occurred as the driver, Shahnawaz Pendhari, lost control over the vehicle and it veered off the road and crashed into a roadside tree, he said.
Pendhari suffered serious injuries in the accident and is undergoing treatment in a hospital, the officer added.
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Standing firmly with armed forces; time for unity, solidarity: Congress
New Delhi(PTI): This is a time for unity and solidarity and the Congress is standing firmly with the armed forces, the party said on Wednesday as Indian armed forces carried out missile strikes on terror targets in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir.
Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh said India's commitment to eliminating all sources of terrorism in Pakistan and PoK has necessarily to be uncompromising and always be anchored in the supreme national interest.
"This is a time for unity and solidarity. Right from the night of April 22nd, the Congress has been categorically stating that the government will have our fullest support in the nation's response to the Pahalgam terror attack," he said.
"The Congress is standing firmly with our armed forces," Ramesh said on X, using the hashtag "Operation Sindoor".
In retaliation for the Pahalgam terror attack, Indian armed forces carried out missile strikes early Wednesday on nine terror targets in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir, including the Jaish-e-Mohammad stronghold of Bahawalpur and Lashkar-e-Taiba's base Muridke.
The military strikes were carried out under Operation Sindoor two weeks after the massacre of 26 civilians in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam.
"A little while ago, the Indian armed forces launched 'Operation Sindoor' hitting terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir from where terrorist attacks against India have been planned and directed," the defence ministry said in a statement at 1.44 am.
It said the actions by the Indian armed forces have been "focused, measured and non-escalatory" in nature and that no Pakistani military facilities have been targeted.
"प्रहाराय सन्निहिताः, जयाय प्रशिक्षिताः"
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