Bengaluru, June 4 (IANS) Two separate tragic road accidents reported from Chikkaballapur and Chamarajanagar districts in Karnataka on Thursday have claimed four lives, including a 7-month-old infant and an elderly couple, while several others were injured.In the first incident, a KSRTC bus collision near Sadali Cross on National Highway 44 in Gudibande taluk of Chikkaballapur district resulted in the death of an elderly couple. The deceased have been identified as 75-year-old Laxmana and 70-year…
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Kalaburagi (Karnataka), May 23 (IANS) Five members of a family were killed on the spot in a horrific road accident near Ladlapur in Chittapur taluk of Kalaburagi district, police said on Saturday. The accident occurred after a head-on collision between a Cruiser vehicle and a truck on the national highway late on Friday night.The deceased have been identified as Tolusab Kashwar (27), Husain Shah (48), Maiboob Ali (45), Rasool Bee (42), and Fatima Ali (38), all residents of Ingalagi village in Ch…
Jammu, May 19 (IANS) One person was killed, and eleven others were injured on Tuesday in a road accident in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district.Police said a passenger bus overturned on the Gool-Sangaldan road near the Sangaldan area of the district.The officials said the accident occurred after a bus bearing registration number JK02CU-7482 reportedly lost control and overturned on the roadside.Soon after the incident, rescue and relief operations were launched by police, locals and emergency …
Bhubaneswar, May 6 (IANS) Amid a sharp rise in road accidents, the Odisha government has directed Regional Transport Officers (RTOs) to take proactive steps to curb such incidents through stricter enforcement and greater public awareness about traffic rule violations. According to an official statement on Tuesday, the directions were issued by Transport Commissioner Amitabh Thakur during a special review meeting held with all Deputy Transport Commissioners, RTOs, and Additional RTOs in Bhubanesw…
Kabul, May 4 (IANS) At least three commuters have been confirmed dead following a high-speed collision between a passenger vehicle and a truck in northern Afghanistan’s Faryab province, the provincial police office said in a statement on Monday. The accident occurred on Sunday evening on the outskirts of Andkhoy district, according to the provincial police office. All three victims were travelling in the high-speed vehicle at the time of the crash, Xinhua News Agency reported. Authorities did no…
Kabul, April 3 (IANS) Two commuters were killed and 13 others sustained injuries as a passenger bus veered from the road in eastern Afghanistan’s Ghazni province on Friday, provincial police spokesman Khalid Sarhadi said. The deadly mishap took place on the main road in Qarabagh district early Friday morning, the official said, adding that efforts are underway to search for a missing boy, Xinhua News Agency reported. Blaming reckless driving for the accident, Sarhadi said an investigation into t…
Srinagar/Jammu, March 26 (IANS) At least two persons were killed, and five others were injured on Thursday in separate road accidents in Jammu and Kashmir.An assistant professor of Poonch degree college, identified as Dr Tabassum Naz, was killed and her husband critically injured in an accident in the Kallar area of Rajouri district.The accident occurred when the car going to Poonch from Rajouri, went out of the driver’s control and veered off the road.Locals rushed to the site and conducted a…
Amaravati, March 26 (IANS) The ghastly bus fire, which claimed 14 lives and left 22 others injured in Andhra Pradesh’s Markapuram district on Thursday, is the latest in a series of deadly accidents involving buses in the Telugu states.Both Andhra Pradesh and Telangana have witnessed at least four major bus tragedies in the last six months.Nineteen people were burnt to death when a private bus caught fire after running over a motorbike lying on the road following an accident near Kurnool town o…
Kabul, March 22 (IANS) At least 43 shops were reduced to ashes after a fire broke out at a local market in northern Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province, the provincial department of information and culture said in a statement.The blaze erupted in Ab Jim market in Raghistan district, said the statement on Saturday evening, adding that preliminary estimations indicate that shop owners have inflicted damages worth nearly 22 million afghanis (around 349,000 US dollars).The cause of the fire remains un…
Kabul, March 2 (IANS) At least three people were killed and six others injured in a highway accident in northern Afghanistan’s Jawzjan province, the provincial police office said in a statement. The incident occurred on Sunday when two high-speed vehicles collided due to reckless driving in the Hadbakhshi region along the Jawzjan-Sari Pul highway, killing both drivers and a female passenger on the spot and injuring six others, including two children, the statement added, Xinhua News Agency repor…