Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (SP)

Udupi, Sep 16: After a truck loaded with fish that was moving towards Mangalore and a ore truck coming from the opposite direction got involved in a collision late night on Sunday September 14 at Kambalakatta in Katpady Moodabettu on national highway 17, Mustafa(32) from Beltangady, who was driving the truck carrying fish, lost his life. Fish trader Abdul Hamid(30) from Beltangady and ore truck driver Nagaraju(28) sustained injuries.

After the accident, traffic on the highway was severely affected for about four hours. The injured were saved as the locals could immediately rescue them from the scene of the accident and admit them to hospital. However, Mustafa had got stuck in the mangled vehicles which had got entangled with each other, and it took around 90 minutes before his body could be retrieved. By then, he was no more alive.

Eye witnesses said, that they believed the driver of the ore truck was feeling sleepy when the accident occured. Some vehicles which had witnessed the erratic movement of the truck said the truck had escaped accidents narrowly at Pangala bridge and near the temple thereafter, before the collision.  Kaup police have registered the case.