Injured woman spent 3 days in car with dead boyfriend

July 10, 2015

dead boyfriendEdinburgh, Jul 10: A young woman who was critically injured in a car crash in Scotland spent three days waiting with the dead body of her boyfriend for help to arrive, it emerged Thursday.

Lamara Bell's father accused police of ignoring his 25-year-old daughter after officers admitted they had received a report of the crash on Sunday but failed to act.

The couple and their car were found by a motorway near the town of Stirling on Wednesday. John Yuill, 28, was pronounced dead at the scene while Bell is in a critical condition in hospital, police said.

"Lamara was in a field for three days after the accident. She was on her way home," her father Ossie Dinnefash wrote in a message on Facebook, according to British media.

"Because of some nice guy that phoned it in and was ignored by the incident room the messages were never passed on. Now my daughter is laying on life support."

Yuill's father Gordon told the Daily Record newspaper that his son could not have been saved but said the delay may have an impact on the health of his girlfriend.

"His injuries were such that he died on impact. But I feel it may have made a difference for Lamara. My heart goes out to her family for that," he said.

In the days before they were found, the young couple had been reported missing.

The Police Scotland force said it had launched an investigation into why it did not act on the original report.

"It has come to light that a call was made to police late on Sunday morning regarding a car which was reported as being off the road," it said in a statement.

"For reasons currently being investigated, that report was not followed up at the time."

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May 21,2020

Bengaluru, May 21:Tragedy struck an elderly migrant worker who was looking forward to joining his family as he died on reaching a nearby railway station to board a Shramik Special train to his home state Madhya Pradesh, police said on Thursday.

The 69-year old man, who worked in a coffee estate in Chikkamagaluru, collapsed and died soon after getting down from a state-run KSRTC bus that brought him and others to the Chikkabanavara Railway station on Wednesday.

According to police, fellow labourers said he had been ailing for quite some time.

The cause of his death would be known only after a post-mortem, police added.

Karnataka government has been sending back thousands of migrant workers stranded in the state due to the COVID-19 lockdown by arranging the special trains.

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February 19,2020

Bengaluru, Feb 19: Bengaluru City Crime Branch (CCB) on Wednesday raided a spa in Koramangala area and rescued six girls.

The owner of the spa is absconding and the manager has been arrested.

Further details are awaited.

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June 10,2020

Thiruvananthapuram, Jun 10: The man who fled from the Medical College Hospital where he was undergoing treatment for COVID-19 committed suicide on Wednesday morning after being brought back. He used his bed sheet to hang himself from the ceiling.

Hailing from Anad near Nedumangadu, the man, who was undergoing treatment in the isolation room set up at KHRWS pay ward, escaped from the hospital and boarded two KSRTC buses to reach his home.

The Health Department had said the latest tests had returned negative and he was to be discharged on Wednesday. However, City Police Commissioner Balram Kumar Upadhyay had claimed that one more test result of the person was awaited.

The man was blocked by locals upon his arrival at Anad. He was later taken back to the hospital and the police had registered a case against him under the Kerala Public Health Act and Epidemic Diseases Ordinance.

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