5 of family die trapped inside burning car

October 3, 2012

Hodal/Palwal, October 3: Five members of a Delhi-based family were burned alive in their car on Tuesday after the Santro collided with a tractor-trailer on the Delhi-Agra national highway causing its LPG kit to explode.

The victims were identified as Ashok Aggarwal, wife Manju Aggarwal, sons Amit and Shobhit and daughter-in-law Seema, of Rohtas Nagar in northeast Delhi. Palwal SP J S Hooda said the car got centrally locked after the collision at Banchari village around 2.30pm, leaving the occupants with no escape route. By the time fire officials got to the site, it was too late.

Haryana police said the vehicle went up in flames after its LPG kit exploded almost 20 minutes after the accident. Although locals claimed that the car was being driven on CNG, cops dismissed the theory. The family was returning from Agra.

The incident occurred near Banchari Village, about 30km from Palwal, on Tuesday. They were residents of Rohtas Nagar in northeast Delhi. The Hodal police said they are trying to ascertain if the LPG kit was defective. They will contact the car manufacturer to find out whether the kit was fitted by them.

According to SP (Palwal) Jagat Singh Hooda, the car was moving at a high speed towards Delhi from Vrindavan. The passengers reached Banchari Village around 4pm. "Suddenly, a tractor-trailer moving ahead of the car broke down and stopped. But the driver failed to swerve. As a result, the car rammed into the vehicle and caught fire," said a senior police officer. Cops said the trailer was loaded with illegally mined sand.

"After the collision, the car's central locking system got jammed. Other drivers on the highway tried to help but most of the occupants had lost consciousness by then. We sent our men in 10 minutes and took the help of fire department officials to smash the car windows and extricate the occupants. Unfortunately, we could not save anyone," said Hooda. Though cops tried to use sand to douse the fire, the method failed.

Locals, however, claimed that the lives could have been saved had the authorities been better prepared. "The highway does not have a mobile disaster management squad. The car exploded at least 30 minutes after the accident. The fire brigade arrived 40 minutes later and members of the rescue team had no gas cutter with them," claimed Salim Ahmed, a resident of the village who called the cops.


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February 16,2020

Five Bajrang Dal activists have been arrested for allegedly indulging in vandalism in the city on Valentines Day, police said.

They said about 10 to 15 activists on two wheelers vandalised a shop in Kattupalli area in Hyderabad on February 14.

They held aloft flags and raised slogans against celebration of Valentines Day and "created havoc" at different malls, a police press release said.

On receiving information, police rushed to a mall, but the Bajrang Dal activists escaped from the spot.

Five of them were later identified with the help of CCTV footage and arrested, police said.

The others too have been identified and efforts were on to nab them, police said.

Two cases have been registered against them under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code on a complaint from shop owners, the release said.

 

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June 6,2020

Kota (Rajasthan), Jun 6: A 14-year-old boy allegedly hanged himself to death on early Saturday morning shortly after he stopped playing PUBG throughout the night and went to sleep, said police. 

Railway Colony police station’s in-charge Hansraj Meena said the boy, a class 9 student and son of an Army man, was found hanging from the grill of the ventilator in his bedroom on early Saturday morning. 

Meena said according to the boy’s family members, the boy had downloaded the gaming programme on his mother’s mobile phone only three days back but had been playing the game virtually continuously for the last three days. 

He kept on playing the game till 3 am in a room in which his brother was studying, said Meena, adding the boy went to adjoining to sleep after that. His body was found hanging from the ventilator’s grill in the morning, he said, adding the boy was rushed to MBS Hospital, where he was declared “brought dead”. 

No suicide note was recovered in the case, the SHO said. The boy lived in Gandhi Colony in the city along with his mother and brother, while his father, a Tamil Nadu native and Army man, is currently posted in Arunachal Pradesh. The boy’s body has been kept in hospital’s morgue for the postmortem, the SHO said.

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June 5,2020

Thiruvananthapuram, Jun 5: One man has been arrested in connection with the death of a pregnant elephant in Palakkad district here, Kerala Forest Minister K Raju said on Friday.

"One accused identified as Wilson has been arrested in connection with the case. More people are involved. The process to arrest all the accused is underway. Strict action will be taken in the matter to ensure such incidents are not repeated in the future," Raju told reporters here.

The elephant had died in Palakkad district on May 27 after it ate a pineapple stuffed with crackers and forest officials said that it died standing in river Velliyar after it suffered an injury in its lower jaw.

Raju said that the forest department has appointed three teams to probe the matter, and added that police are also investigating the incident as explosives were used.

"There may be some type of crackers inside the fruit. In such cases, blast occurs and the animal can not even drink water. The primary post mortem reports said that this case is like that. Let it be investigated," he said.

"Man and animal conflict is natural in our state as people residing close to the forests. The government gives compensation for farmers, Rs 10 lakhs compensation if a person dies in an animal attack," the Minister added.

The death of the pregnant elephant has sparked a controversy, with Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan terming the unfortunate death as "a painful thing" and Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar saying that the Centre has taken a "serious note" of the incident.

According to the preliminary post-mortem report, the immediate cause of the death of the female elephant was drowning followed by inhalation of water leading to lung failure.

The elephant was seen standing in the river with its mouth and trunk in the water for some relief from the pain after the explosive-filled fruit exploded in its mouth.

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