Puttur: Three Die in Ghastly Road Mishap on NH 48, Several Injured
 
Report and Pics by Arun Uppinangady
Daijiworld Media Network – Puttur (RD)
 
Puttur, Jan 18: Three passengers of a jeep died and six were injured in a ghastly road accident that took place at Paravarakotya, near Udane at the foothill of Shiradi Ghat on Mangalore – Bangalore national highway 48 at about 3 pm on Tuesday January 18.
 
The passengers were returning from Dharmasthala, when a Tipper truck laden with jelly collided with the jeep head-on. The stretch of national highway 48 is under repair and the jelly-laden Tipper truck was on its way to dump the stock at the spot.

The deceased have been identified as forty-five-year-old Sarvamangala, fifty-year-old Dakshayini and fifty-year-old Mahendra.

The injured are twenty-year-old Nagesh, seventeen-year-old Rekha, twenty-three-year-old Rajani, sixty-five-year-old Mahadevamma and twenty-four-year-old Sudha and twenty-year-old Lokesh, of whom Mahadevamma is in critical condition. The injured were taken to Government Hospital here by state-run ambulance.
 
All of them hail from Shanivarasanthe in Sakleshpur taluk of Hassan district.
 
Puttur mobile police sub-inspector Nagesh Kadri is investigating the matter.