Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)
Mangaluru, Dec 16: After the passengers of a car and staff of a bus got involved with fight over not allowing the car to overtake the bus, a person who was in the car missed his flight to go abroad. This incident was reported on Tuesday December 15 night.
A person bound for a foreign destination from Kanhangad in Kerala was being accompanied to the city airport on Tuesday by four others in a car. When the car was approaching Netravati Bridge, those inside the car got involved with verbal duel with the driver of a private bus on the issue of purposefully blocking the car from overtaking the bus. The car passengers, who were angry, then overtook the bus, and parked the car across the bus near Indiana Hospital near Pumpwell in the city. The car-borne passengers then assaulted the bus driver and conductor, and the bus staff too retaliated, it is said.
Inspector of the rural police station here, Pramod Kumar, led a team of policemen to the spot after coming to know about this incident. As the policemen found that those in the car were drunk at the time, they were led away for subjecting them to medical tests. In the meanwhile, it is gathered that the man who was to fly abroad, missed his flight.