Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (SP)

Udupi, Sep 12: After am express bus rammed into a motor bike near Hejmady Shivanagar Junior College on the night of Friday September 11, the motor bike rider was killed. Ganesh Acharya (25), son of Darkas House Lakshman Acharya from Kavattar village, who was critically injured in the accident, breathed his last later, in the hospital.

Acharya, employed in Bangalore, had recently married a girl he had loved. He had rented a house near Ucchila and was going to Ucchila from Kavattar, when an express bus moving from Karkala to Mangalore, hit him with such force that he was tossed along with the motor bike, to a distance of a few metres. A passerby named Padebettu Yogeesh Acharya admitted him to Padubidri Siddivinayaka Hospital, from where he was referred to Manipal Hospital. However, he succumbed to his injuries, without responding to treatments on Friday night.

A tempo loaded with marble slabs rolled over on Friday evening at Padubidri Kanchinadka on Friday evening. A person named Mailarappa(28), who was sitting beside the driver, sustained severe injuries to waist, abdomen, chest and legs. He died later, even though efforts were made to revive him at the hospital. Others on the vehicle, Shivananda, Lingappa and Shankarappa were also injured in the accident. The tempo, carrying marble slabs from Abhay Marble Centre Kulai, precariously tilted to one side because of uneven road near Kanchinadka bus stand, before falling on one side. All the injured are being treated in a private hospital in the city.