Three dead as water tank collapses on them in Bengaluru
Bengaluru, Aug 03: Three men died after a water tank from a four-storey building collapsed on them near Shivajinagar bus stand here, police said on Thursday.
The deceased have been identified as Arul (40), Kota Nageshwar Rao (32) and Karan Thapa (32), they said.
According to the police, the incident took place around 10.30 pm on Wednesday when some people were standing near a street food vendor whose pushcart was on the footpath adjacent to the building.
Suddenly, the water tank along with a part of the parapet wall collapsed on the street food vendor and his customers. The vendor and three of his customers sustained severe injuries in the incident. However, the vendor managed to escape from the spot. The three men who sustained injuries were rushed to a nearby hospital where both Arul and Kota Nageshwar Rao were declared brought dead, a senior police officer said.
Karan succumbed to his injuries during the course of treatment on Thursday, he said.
''We have registered a case under section 304 A (causing death due to negligence) of the Indian Penal Code in connection over the incident and further investigation is underway,'' Bheemashankar S Guled, Deputy Commissioner of Police (East), Bengaluru said.
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US VP JD Vance says Lebanon not part of ceasefire, calls it ‘misunderstanding’
Budapest/Washington: US Vice President J D Vance has said that Lebanon was never included in the ceasefire understanding with Iran, describing the confusion as a “legitimate misunderstanding”.
Speaking to reporters before departing from Hungary, Vance said, “I think the Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon and it just didn’t. We never made that promise.”
He stressed that the United States had not included Lebanon in the scope of the ceasefire at any stage.
His remarks come amid continued Israeli strikes in Lebanon, where more than 200 people were reported killed, even as ceasefire talks between Iran and the US move forward.
Vance said Israel had “offered … to check themselves a little bit in Lebanon because they want to make sure that our negotiation is successful”.
He warned that if Iran allows the situation in Lebanon to affect the negotiations, it could derail the talks.
“If Iran wants to let this negotiation fall apart in a conflict where they were getting hammered over Lebanon, which has nothing to do with them and which the United States never once said was part of the ceasefire, that’s ultimately their choice,” he said.
