Daijiworld Media Network - Bagalkot (SP)

Bagalkot, Jul 17: After a truck loaded with onion that was bound for Hubli and a Maruti Omni van going to Bijaipur from Dharwad collided with each other near Korti-Lolhara bridge in Beelagi taluk on Hubli-Solapur national highway on Thursday July 16, six persons including two women from Dharwad lost their lives. All the deceased were travelling in the Omni.

The deceased have been identified as Indubai Bharamaji Birje (58), Shantabai Bharamaji Birje (48) and Ganapati Bharamaji Brirje (30), residents of Dharwad, Virupaksha Ningappa Hataraki (43) from near Dharwad and Sunil Prahlad Rao Pukale (45) from Bankapur in Shiggaon taluk, who were travelling in the Omni, and it's driver Ningappa yallappa Mangalarati (25). Another passenger, Deepak Gangadhar Upale (27) was injured. He is being treated in Bagalkot hospital.

Shantabai Birje, who works as health assistant in Bakapur government hospital, was going to Bijapur along with other family members, to bring her sister living there, to Hubli for providing her some treatment, when tragedy struck. The Maruti Omni got stuck at the bottom of the truck in the accident. Four bodies were trapped inside the Omni while two others were thrown out on the road.

Truck driver Mohammed Rafiq Basha Miya Sheikh surrendered to the policemen. Beelagi policemen are investigating.