Kota, Feb 26: At least 24 people died and four others sustained injuries as a private bus carrying a wedding party fell into a river on Kota–Dausa highway in Bundi district on Wednesday morning, police said.
The wedding party with 28 persons on board was headed to Sawai Madhopur from Kota early morning when the driver apparently lost balance of the bus while traversing a bridge near Papdi village under Lekhari police station limits, Lakheri Sub-Inspector Rajendra Kumar said.
The bus, subsequently, plunged into Mej river from the bridge that had no wall or railing, Kumar said.
Thirteen people died on the spot while 10 others succumbed to their injuries on way to hospital, he added.
The deaths include 11 men, 10 women and three children.
The injured were rushed to Lekhari government hospital from where the critically injured are being referred to a government hospital in Kota, the SI further said.
Most of the injured people were rescued with the help of locals in the village, he added.
Mej river is a tributary of the Chambal river in Rajasthan.
Hyderabad, Mar 28: Seven labourers from Karnataka were killed and four injured when the van in which they were travelling was hit by a truck near Pedda Golconda on the outskirts of the city late on Friday night, police said.
The deceased included two children. Of the 31 workers in the van, five died on the spot and two while undergoing treatment at a hospital, Assistant Commissioner of Traffic Vishwa Prasad said.
Four others were hospitalised and the condition of one of them is critical, he said, adding the other workers in the van escaped with minor injuries.
The workers were on their way back to their home town Raichur in Karnataka as the road project they were working in at Suryapet here was stalled due to the lockdown, Prasad said.
He said initital investigations revealed that the mango laden truck, which was on its way to Gujarat, was overspeeding.
Farukkhabad, Jan 14: In a shocking incident, a new-born baby was mauled to death by a dog inside the operation theatre (OT) of a private hospital in Farukkhabad on Monday.
Family members of the baby boy said that they noticed the hospital staff shooing a dog away from inside the operation theatre and soon after, they were told the baby boy, born just two hours ago, was dead.
The family members said that they found the baby's body on the floor and it had deep gashes around the neck and other parts of the body.
District magistrate Manvendra Singh has ordered an FIR and the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Chandra Shekhar said the hospital has been sealed and an inquiry ordered into the incident.
Sources said that the hospital where the incident took place was unregistered and was being run adjacent to a government hospital.
According to the FIR lodged with Sadar Kotwali police, the infant's father Ravi Kumar said he had admitted his wife Kanchan in the hospital on Monday and she was taken for a C-section to the operation theatre.
After the delivery, Kanchan was shifted to the ward but the family was told that the baby would be shifted later.
An hour later, the family was informed that the baby had died.
The family members then saw the hospital staff trying to chase a dog out of the operation theatre.
The family members forced their way into the operation theatre and found the infant lying on the floor with several injuries on the neck.
The police said that the baby's body has been preserved for examination and post mortem.
The FIR has been registered against Dr Mohit Gupta, and some of the staff members who were present during the delivery.
The hospital owner, Vijay Patel, however, feigned complete ignorance about the incident and said that he had been told that the baby was born dead.
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