Daijiworld Media Network - Bantwal (SP)

Bantwal, Jul 31:After a car and a motor bike collided with each other at Mani in the taluk on national highway 75 on Sunday July 30, the bike rider was killed. The pillion rider, who suffered serious injuries, has been hospitalized.

Shariff (18), son of Eliyas from Badyaru, Karaya in Beltangady taluk, who was riding the motor bike, lost his life. He was a second year diploma student of a private industrial training institute at Beltangady. He is survived by parents and four sisters. His father, it is gathered, works in a foreign country.

Muhammed Irshad (23), son of Usman from Puthila in Beltangady taluk, sustained critical injuries in this accident. He stands admitted into the intensive care unit of a private hospital at Mangaluru.

Both of them were moving from Mangaluru to Uppinangady when a Maruti Alto car coming from opposite direction and moving towards Mangaluru hit them. Vittal police have registered a case and launched an investigation.