Four killed, six injured in ghastly road accident in Mangalore

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March 11, 2011

Mangalore, March 11: Four persons were killed and six others suffered serious injuries, when the car they were travelling in collided with an oncoming lorry on National Highway 48 near Addyar-Kannur on the outskirts of the city on Friday night, police sources said.

Deceased have been identified as Rakshith alias Shabari, Mushtaq Rahman, Nazeer Ahmed and Abdussamad Thangal. The injured are Mohammed Rafeeq, Basheer, Ashraf, Nandakumar, Ramachandra, car driver Aboobakar and lorry driver Shankar.

The accident has resulted in traffic jam on the high way for at least half an hour as a large number of local people gathered in the spot.

The Ambassador car carrying nine persons was on its way to BC Road from Mangalore while the tanker was coming to the city from BC Road.

The lorry driver was said to have been drunk and came on the wrong side and collided against the ill-fated car.

The impact of the mishap was such that the Ambassador car reduced to a bundle of metal.

According to the eye witnesses, the accident occurred at around 9:15 pm, when the driver of the lorry lost control over his vehicle and hit the car, which trapped under the wheels of the lorry.

The road was splashed with blood and the scene at the accident spot was terrifying.

Within a few minutes, ambulances reached the spot and shifted the dead bodies and injured to different hospitals in the city.

A case has been registered under Mangalore rural police station.

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Mangaluru police registers cases against 2 foreign nationals for allegedly spitting in lift

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April 18,2020

Mangaluru, Apr 18: Mangaluru Police have registered a case against two foreign nationals, who were under home quarantine in Kodailbail, for allegedly spitting in the lift of their apartment building on Friday.

The two men, along with three of their roommates, have now been sent to a quarantine facility.

The residents of the residential complex have mentioned in their complaint that they have the CCTV footage of the two spitting in the lift.
Further investigation in the case is underway.

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No health screening of passengers at inter-district check-posts in Karnataka

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May 22,2020

Bengaluru, May 22: Karnataka government on Thursday said that there will be no inter-district check-posts for health screening in the State.

"There will be no inter-district check-posts for health screening in the State. Any health screening for passengers travelling by public transport -- buses and trains -- will be done at the origin of the journey and all those passengers found asymptomatic will be allowed to travel," reads the statement issued by the Commissionerate of Health and Family Welfare Services.

It further reads: "The agencies running public transport (KSRTC and others, Indian Railways, private bus operators) should ensure health screening of passengers before the start of the journey. There will be no health screening of passengers travelling by private vehicles across districts in Karnataka."

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Karnataka records 122 new Covid-19 cases in 19 hours; total 2,405

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May 27,2020

Bengaluru, May 27: A 69-year-old woman from Yadgiri became the 45th COVID-19 related fatality in Karnataka, where 122 fresh cases have been reported, taking the total number of infections in the state to 2,405, the health department said on Wednesday.

With 45 deaths and 762 discharges, there are 1,596 active coronavirus cases in the state, the department said in its mid-day bulletin. It said, the deceased woman, a returnee from Maharashtra was brought dead to designated hospital in Yadgiri on May 20 and tested positive for COVID-19.

Fourteen patients have been discharged in the state so far on Wednesday. Of the 122 new cases, 108 are returnees from neighboring Maharashtra, three from Tamil Nadu, and one each from Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala and Delhi. While two are returnees from foreign countries- one each from UAE and Nepal.

Remaining four cases are contact of patients earlier tested positive.

Among the districts where new cases were reported, Kalaburagi accounted for 28, Yadgiri 16, Hassan 15, Bidar 13, Dakshina Kannada 11, Udupi 9, Bengaluru Urban 6, five each from Uttara Kannada and Raichur, Belagavi 4, Chikkamagaluru 3, two each from Bengaluru Rural and Vijayapura, and one each from Ballari, Mandya and Tumakuru.