Himachal landlside death toll stands at 16
SHIMLA, Oct 8: The death toll in a massive landslide that hit a private bus in Himachal Pradesh’s Bilaspur district increased to 16 with the recovery of a child’s body on Wednesday morning as the search and rescue operation concluded, officials said.The incident took place on Tuesday evening when a huge portion of a mountain gave way and fell on the moving bus in the Bhalughat area near Berthin. A total of 15 bodies were pulled out from the debris by Tuesday night.“A total of 16 bodies have been recovered while two children rescued. Rescue teams have thoroughly searched the accident site and also broken a hanging part of the debris to look for any trapped people,” Bilaspur Superintendent of Police Sandeep Dhawal told PTI this afternoon. (PTI)
Probe on after Haryana cop found dead
CHANDIGARH, Oct 8: A day after senior Haryana Police officer Y Puran Kumar allegedly shot himself dead at his Chandigarh residence, police on Wednesday said they are conducting investigations to ascertain what drove him to take the extreme step.The deceased officer’s wife, a senior bureaucrat, arrived here from Japan on Wednesday.Puran Kumar’s wife arrived here in the afternoon from Japan, where she had gone as part of an official delegation.Amneet P Kumar, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer and the commissioner and secretary of the Haryana government’s Department of Foreign Cooperation, was in Japan as part of a delegation led by Chief Minister Nayab Saini.Y Puran Kumar (52), a 2001-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, was found dead in his Chandigarh residence on Tuesday.Some senior Haryana bureaucrats, including Chief Secretary Anurag Rastogi, met Amneet Kumar after she arrived here and offered their condolences.(PTI)
Doctor hacked in hospital by father of deceased patient
KOZHIKODE, Oct 8: A government doctor was seriously injured after being attacked with a machete by a man whose daughter died of amoebic meningitis recently, police said.The incident happened at the taluk hospital in Thamarassery in this district on Wednesday, police said.The doctor, identified as Vipin, was struck on the head and was later hospitalised at the Baby Memorial Hospital here.His health condition is stable now, the officer said.The assailant — 40-year-old Sunup — was taken into custody following the afternoon incident, but his arrest has not yet been formally recorded, an officer of Thamarassery police station said in the evening. (PTI)
