Four of family drown as car plunges into canal
Madikeri, August 06: Four persons of the same family drowned as the car in which they were travelling plunged into a canal near Mantikoppalu in Periyapatna taluk on Monday.
The deceased were identified as Palaniswamy (45), Sanju Kumari (34), Poornima (19) and Likhith (15). The accident occurred when the family was going to their land at Lakshmipura after visiting the post office at Doddakamaravalli in the taluk. The family had land in Lakshmipura village, but was residing at Napoklu in Kodagu district for the last ten years. Palaniswamy was working as a mason. As both Poornima and Likhith were physically disabled, they have gone to the post office to get the physically disabled pension and were going to their land in the car, it is said.
While driving the car near Mantikoppalu village, Palaniswamy lost control over the car and plunged into the Harangi right bank canal. Because of the current, the car was dragged for some meters in the canal and all the four died inside the car.
Fire brigade and police lifted the car from the canal and removed the bodies. Bettadapura police registered a case and bodies were handed over to the relatives after postmortem at Kushalnagar community health centre.
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Kolkata: Aliah University student found dead in hostel
Kolkata (PTI): A student of the state-run Aliah University in New Town near Kolkata was found dead in his hostel room, police said on Tuesday.
The body of Abdul Rahman (24), a resident of Malda, was found hanging from the ceiling in his hostel room around 7 pm on Monday, they said.
Rahman's classmates found the body when they entered his room after getting no response to repeated knocks on the doors. They then informed the police.
Officers of the Techno City police station went to the spot and sent the body to hospital for post-mortem examination, an official said.
An investigation has been started, they said, adding that the exact cause of the death will be known after the post-morterm examination.
