Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (MB)

Pic courtesy Udayavani

Udupi, Aug 31: Four of a family from Vaddarse Madhuvan near Kota here died in a gory, head-on collision between a car and an iron ore-laden lorry that took place in front of the Shri Shambhavi Vidyadayini School at Kota Giliyar on Thursday, August 30 evening.

The deceased, a man and three women of the same family, were travelling in the ill-fated car. Their names, according to the police, are Abdul Rahman (32), his mother Rahmanamma Fatima Bi (55), and Rahman's two sisters-in-law, Baby Sabi (34) and Khadija Bi (32).

Rahman, who owned a cellphone repair shop in the panchayat complex at Saligrama, was driving the car. He along with his mothers and sisters-in-law were returning home after visiting an ailing relative in a private hospital in Kundapur. Rahman's face is said to have been disfigured beyond recognition.  While his mother and sister-in-law Baby Sabi, who were occupying the rear seat, died on the spot, his another sister-in-law Khadija Bi, is reported to have died on the spot.

After completion of medical and police formalities at the Kota primary medical centre, the bodies were handed to the family members.