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5 of family die trapped inside burning car

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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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July 22,2020

Thiruvananthapuram, Jul 22:An accused in a case registered under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act jumped into the sea on Wednesday morning when he was taken for evidence collection at Kasaba in Kasargode district, police said.

Accused Mahesh was arrested following a complaint by his neighbour on Tuesday evening.

The police said that they took the accused to the seashore to collect evidence in the case when Mahesh jumped into the sea. Two police officials too jumped in after him to catch hold of him but could not locate Mahesh.

Later, swimmers were deployed to try and locate the missing man.

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March 3,2020

Panipat, Mar 3: A 22-year-old man was charred to death after he came in contact with a live electricity wire while posing for a TikTok video near the Matlaudha railway station here, police said on Tuesday.

The incident took place on Monday evening when Vikas, a resident of Dharamgarh village, climbed a pole over which the wire was passing and posed for the video, police said.

His three friends were standing below when the accident took place.

Vikas came in contact with the wire carrying 25,000 volts current and was burnt, police said.

Police have sent the body for a post-mortem and started investigation into the matter.

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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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