3 dead after light planes collided in Australia
Sydney, Oct 26: Three men died after two light planes collided midair and crashed into a forested area southwest of Sydney on Saturday.
Australian police, fire and ambulance crews reached the two wreckage sites, located in a semirural bushland area about 55 miles southwest of Sydney, on foot. One plane had burst into flames on impact.
New South Wales Police Acting Superintendent Timothy Calman confirmed that a Cessna 182 carrying two people collided with an ultralight aircraft from a nearby airfield carrying one.
Further details of the victims have not been disclosed.
Witnesses saw “debris coming from the sky” and tried to help, but “there was probably not much that could've been done,” Calman said to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation . He noted both crashes, about one kilometre apart, were “not survivable.”
NSW Ambulance Inspector Joseph Ibrahim, part of the emergency response team, said to the ABC, “unfortunately, there was nothing they could've done.”
The cause of the crash will be investigated by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau.
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Odisha: 28 hospitalised due to snakebites during Cyclone Dana
Bhubaneswar, Oct 26: As many as 28 people, including 13 women and a doctor, were hospitalised after being bitten by snakes during Cyclone Dana, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi said on Saturday.
Briefing the media after taking stock of the post-cyclone situation in the state, Majhi said all 28 snakebite cases were reported in the worst cyclone-affected districts of Kendrapara, Bhadrak and Balasore.
"The snakebite victims were immediately rushed to nearby hospitals and they are doing well after treatment," Majhi said.
The injured doctor was admitted to SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack and his health condition is fine, he said.
Dr Babul Mohanty, who was deputed to the primary health Centre in Mahakalpara in Kendrapara district to provide healthcare services to people during the cyclone, was bitten by a snake while going to relieve himself.
As the PHC did not have a toilet for the medical staff, Dr Mohanty had gone outside to relieve himself early on October 25 when he was bitten by a venomous snake.
He was administered anti-snake venom and rushed to the SCB Medical College and Hospital.
