Two kids riding scooter killed, one other critically injured
KORBA (CHHATTISGARH), July 15: Two minor siblings riding a scooter on a highway were killed and another boy suffered critical injuries after a tanker collided with their two-wheeler in Chhattisgarh’s Korba district on Wednesday morning, police said Locals later blocked the highway for about an hour, demanding action against the tanker driver, who was arrested. The accident occurred at around 9.30 am on the Katghora-Ambikapur stretch of NH-130 under the Bango police station limits, they said. A 12-year-old boy, his 13-year-old sister and another boy, also aged 13, were riding the scooter when the tanker allegedly hit their vehicle and ran over them, Bango Station House Officer Durgesh Verma said. The siblings died on the spot, while the third child sustained critical injuries and was admitted to a hospital for treatment, he said. All three children were residents of Thihai Bhatha village in Kunkuna gram panchayat, the official said. Cops rushed to the spot after receiving information and shifted the injured child to a hospital. The tanker driver was arrested, and legal proceedings have been initiated, he said. An investigation into the accident was underway. (PTI)
Pune-based sailor’s kin wait for his remains after Iran attack
Pune, July 15: The family of 30-year-old marine engineer Herambh Karmarkar from Pune is waiting for his mortal remains to be brought back following his death in an attack on a Cyprus-flagged commercial vessel off the coast of Oman. Container ship GFS Galaxy was attacked early on Sunday when it was transiting the Strait of Hormuz. Karmarkar’s family members said he was on board the ship that was attacked. After he died in the attack, his body is currently with the Oman Navy, they said. “We are awaiting his mortal remains, which are currently with the Oman Navy. Herambh had been on the vessel for the last five months and was due to sign off soon,” his father-in-law Vivek Tandon said on Wednesday. Karmarkar is survived by his wife, mother and younger sister. He had completed his marine engineering from the City of Glasgow College in the UK and had joined the merchant navy, Tandon added. (PTI)
3-year-old loses arm; family accuses TMC’s Abhishek
Kolkata, July 15: In another shocking allegation of negligence at TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee-promoted Sebashraay health camps, the parents of a three-year-old claimed on Wednesday that their daughter’s right arm was amputated at the shoulder after they were allegedly persuaded to undergo a misguided change in her treatment at the makeshift clinic. The complaint, lodged at the Bishnupur Police Station in South 24 Parganas, names Banerjee as an accused alongside multiple others including former TMC Rajya Sabha MP Santanu Sen, now-arrested local MLA Dilip Mondal and Ayan Ghosh Dastidar, a staffer at Banerjee’s Camac Street office in Kolkata. The allegation comes within days of a woman complaining before police that she lost a leg following a botched treatment for knee pain at a Sebaashray camp in the same district, with the state health department stepping in to probe the matter. (PTI)
