Honnavar: Four Crushed to Death by Speeding Truck
Daijiworld Media Network - Honnavar
Honnavar, May 20: In a shocking incident, four people died when a speeding truck crushed them soon after they alighted from a bus.
The accident occured on Friday May 20 at Sharavati circle here. The passengers had got down from the Mumbai-Mangalore bus which had halted at the bus stop, and were waiting for their luggage to be handed over to them. But even as they waited, a speeding truck which was moving right next to the bus hit them.
One of the deceased is the bus cleaner Aqeel.
The others who lost their lives are Syed Noorullah from Kaup and brothers Amjad and Zubair Khan, of whom the former had arrived from Saudi Arabia and the latter had gone to Mumbai to receive him.
The police have arrested the driver of the truck, who had initially tried to escape.