Three of family killed in car crash in Chitradurga
Chitradurga(PTI): Three members of a family, including two boys died, and three others were injured allegedly after their speeding car flipped on the road in this district, police said on Wednesday.
The accident that occurred on Tuesday morning on NH-150 A was caught on CCTV camera. In the video, the car could be seen hitting the divider and flipping at least 10 times non-stop.
Preliminary inquiry revealed that the driver of the speeding car allegedly lost control and crashed into the divider following which the vehicle flipped at least 10 times resulting in death of Moula Abdul (35) who was driving it and his two sons, they said.
The injured were admitted to the hospital for treatment.
The family, hailing from Yadgiri district, was traveling from Bengaluru to their native place when the mishap occurred, police said, adding further investigation is underway.
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Bantwal police arrest two men for illegal sale of narcotics, seize two vehicles, 810 gm ganja
Mangaluru: Bantwal Rural Police have arrested two men who were allegedly attempting to sell narcotics illegally near the National Highway 75 stretch in Hanumanagar of Thumbay in Bantwal taluk on Saturday evening.
The police team, led by Bantwal Rural Sub-inspector Manjunath T, held the operation on being informed that the arrested men, identified as Sameer (31) of Thumbay and Muhammad Asif (35) of Goodinabali, were trying to sell narcotics illegally at the said place. When they reached the place, they are learned to have found two men standing in a suspicious manner beside a car and an auto rickshaw parked on an empty plot near the highway. The policemen caught and questioned the men, who confessed that they had been trying to sell ganja.
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The team, on checking the car, reportedly found 450 gram of the narcotic along with 360 gram in the auto rickshaw. The narcotic and the two vehicles have been seized by the police.
A case has been registered against Sameer and Asif at the Bantwal Rural Police Station, the Department has said in a press statement.
